“I don’t stay up nights worrying,” said John Lennon in 1965. “Summers I used to cover Missouri,” wrote Thornton Wilder in 1934. “I went over there afternoons,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in 1929. Why do ...

Oh, dear. It had to happen sooner or later: a direct clash with Chronicle editorial authority over a point of 19th-century prescriptive grammar. My Our esteemed editor, Heidi Landecker, who has saved ...

In two weeks’ time, Brent’s and Roy’s wives will test the limits of Brent and Roy’s friendship. No, that’s not my pitch for the world’s lamest movie of the week. It’s a sentence designed to showcase ...

We can demonstrate the link between two nouns either by using possessive forms (the US bank's finance division / the finance division of the US bank) or compound nouns (the US bank finance division).