Several people have requested that I revisit prepositions, based on how intriguing it is to master them. To such people, ‘intriguing’ is just a euphemism here. They consider mastering prepositions to, ...

Right now, we’re in a world of comparisons and differences—political, geographical, and even interpersonal. Theodore Roosevelt truly believed that “comparison is the thief of joy,” (and that is not ...

Can two people talk among themselves? Can three people have disagreements between them? According to some of the more strict language authorities, no. That’s not how “among” and “between” work. But in ...

Rabbi Jonathan H. Gerard of Easton, Pa., gently corrects me for writing in my column of February 14, after listing various English newspaper translations of a Hebrew phrase used by Israeli Minister of ...

A major ‘rule’ many of us are familiar with is that ‘between’ is used with two persons or things, and ‘among’ is the correct preposition when they are more than two. I must confess that, in the early ...