Do you remember being taught you should never start your sentences with "And" or "But"? What if I told you that your teachers were wrong and there are lots of other so-called grammar rules that we've ...

To understand why we’ve been getting it wrong, we need to know a little about the history of grammar teaching. Grammar is how we organise our sentences in order to communicate meaning to others. Those ...

Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 32: The Burden of Being Right Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab When it comes to language, everyone’s a little bit prescriptivist.

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from government agencies to investigate curriculum, teacher standards and spelling. She is on the Board of Directors of ...