Ceely's Modern Usage

There are two ways to spell "Renaissance," one of which I dislike. Doesn't matter: that disliked version is a legitimate, reco...

There are still lots of things to be learned from Lessons in Our Language (Quackenbos, 1882), as well as a couple of things to scratch our ...

I've been gleaning old newspapers for genealogical tidbits - and I have found many good tidbits - and marveling at the news I find ther...

I thought this was pretty interesting: there are rules that aren't really taught to native speakers of English, but are known anyway. B...

It has come to our attention that there exists a blog with the unlikely name of "Literally: A Weblog." It describes itself in its...

A post by Andrew Stuttaford the other day brought this John Edwards quote to my attention: One of the things we ought to be thinking ab...

Jonah Goldberg at The Corner posted "Useful stuff we should all know, but most don't, " in which he linked to "Some comm...

I realize it's been quiet around here. My apologies. We will, perhaps, have something to write about in the near future. Until then, ...