LITTLE ROCK — The pronunciation of the state name is enshrined in state law, and now a top member of the House of Representatives wants to declare a particular way of spelling the name's possessive ...

Recently the Los Angeles Times wrote that legendary funnyman Jack Benny “was a particular favorite of Johnny Carson’s.” That caught the eye of a reader named Rod, who asked: “When the writer says that ...

Some people will tell you that it’s fine to say “a friend of John” and that it’s also fine to say “John’s friend,” but “a friend of John’s” is another matter. “The double possessive is redundant and ...

Rep. Steve Harrelson, a Democrat in the Arkansas legislature, yesterday introduced a resolution to declare the correct way to write the possessive form of the state's name. That would be, he says, ...

It could go down in history as the Arkansas Apostrophe Act of 2007. Or maybe “Arkansas’s Apostrophe Act of 2007.” Last month, the Arkansas State Legislature passed a non-binding resolution declaring ...

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I THOUGHT there was something awful and otherworldly in this headline of a recent CNN.com news story: “Pregnant pastor’s wife shot, killed in home invasion in Indianapolis.” The picture it created in ...

A reader asks: How do we write the possessive form of names that end in s – for example, Davis's or Davis'? This is not only a long-standing area of disagreement and inconsistency among writing guides ...

It was in the news last week that a privately owned dam in Solai, Nakuru County, burst and destroyed villages along an estimated 5km stretch that, unfortunately, lay in the path that the water, having ...