According to my 1933 Oxford Universal Dictionary, “good-bye” and “co-operate” are hyphenated, neither “leg room” nor “birth rate” can be run together into a single word, and “teenager” doesn’t exist.

Yesterday, in recommending some clutter that the editors of the Associated Press Stylebook might excise, I named “the split-verb superstition, a journalistic extension of the split-infinitive ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Two schools of thought seem to exist on the placement of adverbs with compound verbs. One is easy: just stick it in front of the ...

It’s long past time to have a look at that verbs entry in the AP Stylebook, because, and I say this out of a spirit of concern and disinterested helpfulness, it can’t stand up to examination. The ...

Machine generated contents note: Preliminary lesson: phonology and orthography; 1. Instransitive verbs, word order, absolutive suffix; 2. Nouns and nominal predicates ...