One Cheer for the Grammar Mavens

ben yagoda recently retired as a professor of English and journalism at the University of Delaware. Among his books are About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made (Scribner, 2000) and When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse (Broadway, 2006). He contributes to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s blog about writing and language, Lingua Franca (https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca), and conducts his own blog about British expressions that have penetrated American English, Not One-Off Britishisms (https://britishisms.wordpress.com/). E-mail: [email protected].