I don’t think I’ve ever written a column on the word “neither.” And considering how long I’ve been writing this column — more than 20 years — that’s not just odd. It’s suspicious, as if I’ve been ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Neither you nor I set the “rules” of English; we do it together, by using words in certain ways. But we do learn certain ...
There is a question many people recently got wrong in our homework series. It centres on the choices that ‘neither’ makes when used with ‘nor’ to connect two or more negative alternatives. The outcome ...