Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Neither you nor I set the “rules” of English; we do it together, by using words in certain ways. But we do learn certain ...

The neither-nor and either-or rule is so simple that many people master them promptly. What they may fail to note, however, is the fact that it is not every time you see the terms that you go for the ...

I don’t think I’ve ever written a column on the word “neither.” And considering how long I’ve been writing this column — more than 20 years — that’s not just odd. It’s suspicious, as if I’ve been ...