After publishing my last post on grammar, I was proclaimed by one of my siblings “a real nerd.” This public declaration of dorkery got me thinking about nerds. While the term was once pejorative, the ...

A major ‘rule’ many of us are familiar with is that ‘between’ is used with two persons or things, and ‘among’ is the correct preposition when they are more than two. I must confess that, in the early ...

Normally there is no change in meaning if we switch from one to the other. In the examples you quote, Ivo, the meaning is exactly the same and we can choose either formulation irrespective of the ...