Many years ago, back when I used to answer my landline telephone, I found myself in a conundrum. I realized that, when a caller asked, “May I speak to June, please?” I would answer, “This is she.” But ...

You heard it here first. For years, now, language mavens have been discussing the creep of the nominative pronoun in constructions calling for the objective case. Although voices have been raised in ...

The standard wisdom about case of pronouns that are predicative complements (and that includes many complements of "than" and "as") is that if you could fill in a clause instead of a pronoun, and in ...

READERS new to Feedback may be unaware of our attempts over the years to expand humanity’s understanding of nominative determinism – the phenomenon, first identified in this column, in which people’s ...

IT HAS been done to death in New Scientist since the 1990s, which is why we often insist we will publish no new examples. Then more appear that are almost too good to be true, and we are back in the ...