Elisa from Long Island, New York, asks whether frequent (fri-KWENT) the verb can be pronounced with stress on the second syllable, unlike frequent (FREE-kwent) the adjective. Many two-syllable English words shift stress depending on part of speech...
An insurance fraud investigator in Milwaukee wonders if he’s correct to use a semicolon immediately after the word “however.” Grant suggests that the word and the punctuation mark should do a do-si-do. This is part of a complete...
