An eggcorn is a mistaken word or phrase that makes almost as much sense as the correct version. The term eggcorn was coined by linguist Geoff Pullum in 2003 as a nod to people’s habit of mistaking the ...

A team of neuroscientists has found new support for linguist Noam Chomsky's decades-old theory that we possess an 'internal grammar' that allows us to comprehend even nonsensical phrases. A team of ...

Each Sunday night before going to bed, a 51-year-old American software engineer follows an exacting routine to eradicate one grammatical mistake from Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that ...

From 'here's you a piece of pizza' to 'this glass needs washed', every state has its own set of phrases that can seem bizarre to the rest of the English-speaking world. In New York, for instance, ...