The lexicographer Kory Stamper’s new book, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, is an eloquent defense of a “live and let live” approach to English. Well, you know what they say about ...

Microsoft Word is a very useful software when it comes to writing long paragraphs with styling. Almost every writer uses Word on his/her computer. People use Microsoft Word over Notepad because – ...

If you have accumulated a collection of misspelled words in the Microsoft Word Spelling and Grammar Check custom dictionary, you can create a new dictionary to reset the check features and start a new ...

All learners of English encounter problem points on their journey towards mastering the language. A number of readers have sent in queries about English grammar, words and phrases, idioms, style. Here ...

Know someone who is heading back to school this fall? Here are some grammar tips I compiled for you, my dear (not-school-aged) reader, to pass along to that special student in your life. Don’t write ...

This past spring, Microsoft released its list of the top 10 grammar mistakes in the English language. The flubs, culled from the editing tools in the company’s software, were reported in an article at ...

Microsoft Word is all too easy to hate. As one of my colleagues at Slate put it in a recent conversation, the venerable program’s ubiquity makes it a bit like the cable company of the software world: ...

Microsoft has announced its answer to Grammarly and Google's recent AI updates for G Suite with the new Microsoft Editor browser extension coming to Chrome and Edge in the next few weeks. Microsoft ...

The Anglo Saxons didn’t say ‘the’, they said ‘sê’ – as in pass me ‘sê’ bread. Nowhere in Old English grammar is there actually a precise ancestor for ‘the’. But some time over the 1100s it entered our ...

The most commonly-used word in English might only have three letters – but it packs a punch. ‘The’. It’s omnipresent; we can’t imagine English without it. But it’s not much to look at. It isn’t ...