Semicolon use is down, and its slide is making headlines. In the U.S., these punctuation marks are appearing in published ...

Words frequently used by ChatGPT, including “delve” and “meticulous,” are getting more common in spoken language, according ...

"Thomas Jefferson survives." What Adams didn't know was that Jefferson had actually passed away several hours earlier.

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Last week, we published an article about the new list of “banished words” from Michigan’s Lake Superior State University highlighting words and phrases that are misused, overused, or totally ...

Word on Fire, a nonprofit founded by Bishop Robert Barron, has again threatened Commonweal magazine over an article that questioned how Barron and his organization have engaged with former ...

A retired CT teacher has lived by the motto that he is ‘delightfully off-topic,’ so he carved the words on his tombstone.

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Asking Commonweal to retract a passage in an article Word on Fire didn't like raises a larger issue: that a diocesan bishop, armed with a personal media empire, thinks it is appropriate to stifle ...

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