We really don't pay attention to the common nouns, do we? Can we really remember the name of the four Bangladeshis who died in Libya in March? Or the ones who were murdered in Maijdee in 2007 ...

That being said, now that i [something] is a well-known "thing", if you wanted to mock it with a generic iNoun, it should always get the lower case, just like the proper noun version.

Nominalizations are grammatical, and a lot of adjectives and verbs have noun forms, but using nominalizations can occasionally lead to terrible writing.

In these cases, wow, yum, and fail can be seen as one-word expressions — the first two exclamations, the third something written (or stamped) on a document — used in noun slots.

Here’s the rule most people go by: “Fewer” is for count nouns, which are things that can be counted individually, while “less” is for mass nouns, which are things seen as quantities.

The Case Against the Grammar Scolds The lexicographer Kory Stamper’s new book, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, is an eloquent defense of a “live and let live” approach to English.

Few have done so with the commitment of Nouns DAO. At the very least the episode offers a case study in what can go wrong when money-management gets decentralized in a blockchain-enabled experiment.

We celebrate our favourite collective nouns for birds, from the weird and the wonderful to the most curious.

One of the things that French learners struggle with the most is the language's complicated and detailed grammar rules - so we're launching a new series, offering a few tips and tricks to help on ...