Americans like being the best at things. We’re the best at baseball, jazz, freedom, national parks — pretty much anything Ken Burns has already covered. Yes, living in the Land of Opportunity is ...

One of the first things new copy editors learn is that they should change the contraction ‘til to the word till, or, in more formal contexts, until. Then, if they’re anything like me, they spend the ...

If you want to stop Microsoft Word from marking contractions as errors, here is how you can do that. If you often choose formal writing, contractions get flagged. However, if you want to stop Word ...