A grammar lesson in the classroom leads to one giant ewe or ugh. It’s just not cool to speak like an academic. If a child does, the nerd word comes up. If an adult does, the word elitist looms ...

for which he later traveled around India and the Middle East as an educator specializing in American English style and grammar for adults. Ross has been an actor on stage, in commercials ...

Sarah Brownsword, the educator behind the question, put the debate down to the fact that "people love to talk about and argue about language use." ...