Recently the Los Angeles Times wrote that legendary funnyman Jack Benny “was a particular favorite of Johnny Carson’s.” That caught the eye of a reader named Rod, who asked: “When the writer says that ...

The big story in my hometown of Rockford this week is the teachers strike — or should that be “teachers’ strike.” Should “teachers” take the possessive form or not? First, a word about terminology, ...

Rep. Steve Harrelson, a Democrat in the Arkansas legislature, yesterday introduced a resolution to declare the correct way to write the possessive form of the state's name. That would be, he says, ...