One of the first things you learn when studying Japanese is that the language incorporates four different styles of writing: the Chinese-derived characters known as kanji, the basic phonetic script of ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. At around age six, I began collecting baseball cards. Almost immediately, I sorted the players on the cards into each of ...

The word alphabet comes from alpha and beta, the first two words in the Greek alphabet. Why is the alphabet written in a specific order? The alphabet has often been described as an arbitrary ...