“Grammar” is how we think
When one of our nieces was a toddler, her mother stepped out of the room for a few moments only to hear a resounding crash. As my sister-in-law rushed back into the room, she saw a tableau . . .
Why such confusion over “it’s” and “its”?
“Up with which I will not put” — a bit of history and a caution
The origin of this anecdote isn’t what you think it is, and reading a couple of the early versions is instructive
Let’s just get this out of the way to start with: no, Winston Churchill likely never said this. At least, not as time has handed the anecdote down to us. Not in this phrasing, and not in the context most famously attributed to him.
