Some people don’t use hyphens enough, while others go overboard with them. Hyphen usage has a few rules for you to follow. Sometimes hyphens are incorrectly used with words that end with “ly.” You ...

Have you noticed how the effects of the American Revolution are being reversed by an invasion of British scolds? The most famous, of course, is Simon Cowell, the imperious judge on “American Idol” ...

THE PILOT’S July 9 front-page editorial, “Us,” was excellent, but I am concerned that we have traveled down our current road too far to be reversed. We ceased to be “America” when we became a ...

A new documentary by a 22-year-old Toronto filmmaker is analyzing what is means to be an immigrant in Canada. Directed and produced by Samah Ali, Hyphen-Nation features a 14-minute conversation ...

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, the scaled-down, two-volume version of the mammoth 20-volume OED, just got a little shorter. With the dispatch of a waiter flicking away flyspecks, the editor, ...

Copy editors are the unsung heroes of writing. They keep the world’s wordsmiths from looking like big dum-dums every day, and for that, everyone—writers, readers, this whole content community—should ...

New Yorkers from more than 80 countries marched through downtown Brooklyn in solidarity with Muslim-American veterans on Sunday in a show of unity many participants aimed to counter recent waves of ...