The words we choose can change attitudes — and change lives. A swing-dance instructor has switched to gender-neutral language when teaching couples. He says that using words like “leader” and “follower” actually works better than using gendered...
A 1957 story by James Thurber includes a sentence with oddly stranded prepositions. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Stranded Prepositions” Earlier, we were talking about prepositional pileups, like it’s really coming down up here...