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“A person walking in Mountainside Park . . . called police when she saw two men sitting at a picnic table without any pants.” I knew that picnic tables had legs, but only after reading this newspaper ...

Battling cancer is hard enough for a child. But having to also battle a sibling is simply too much. Such was the conclusion you might draw from reading a headline in a recent story in the Daily Herald ...

Late December seems like a pretty good time to take stock of the year’s foremost misplaced modifiers. As always, the thrill is in the hunt. If you keep your eyes and ears open, pretty soon you’ll come ...

I got some entertaining responses to my recent Grammar Police column about gerunds, including a few people who thought my gerund comments were acceptable but tore me apart on other grounds, including ...

I didn’t wear glasses until I was 19. As an up-and-coming visionary word nerd, I had never thought I needed corrective lenses. Of course, I always fancied monocles, although I didn’t know how to keep ...

(CN) - A misplaced modifier in an insurance contract may be a "syntactical sin," but it doesn't require Travelers Insurance to reimburse Payless ShoeSource for a $2.45 million class-action settlement, ...