The difference between the transitive verb lay and the intransitive verb lie escapes many speakers and writers. I have written about it, and so has a Mount Airy reader who frequently comments on ...

Not so long ago, the only people who had to worry about typos were named Gutenberg. Today, typos dog everyone with a keyboard, and that horrible feeling of realizing ...

“Hey, Josh,” I asked a colleague at my freelance job, “what’s the difference between lay and lie?” His answer was quick and confident: “You lay something down and you lie on a bed.” But it wasn’t the ...

Sure, it’s easy to distinguish lace from lice and lake from like, but what’s the difference between lay and lie? When I say “lie” in this article, I’m not referring to the act that causes Pinocchio’s ...