Many years ago, back when I used to answer my land-line telephone, I found myself in a conundrum. I realized that, when a caller asked, “May I speak to June, please?” I would answer “This is she.” But ...

Although English-language verbs generally don’t inflect or change in form to agree with the subject in number, they do so in the present tense, third-person singular.

When I entered first grade in 1963, public-school pedagogy was in the throes of a revolution. The traditional grammar school (where children learned, inter alia, grammar) had been transformed into the ...