Is “vernacular” in your vernacular? While it was part of my mom’s, “funicular” wasn’t. Those mountain-climbing trains — and really anything that climbed higher than a flight of stairs — is something ...

Not every academic is a grammar geek. Yet most of us have pet peeves that tend to irk us when we spot them in our students’ work. And we’re spotting them more than ever, thanks to the hit that ...

Poems are commonly tested through reference-to-context questions, central idea or message, and poetic devices, while drama focuses on character traits, humour, and conflict.