12.26.2017 Columns Gimme Shelter: Word police on patrol It’s time for Gimme Shelter’s annual report on how English — the language of Shakespeare, Emerson, Joyce and Professor Irwin Corey — fared in 2017.
12.26.2016 Columns Gimme Shelter: Words, like, literally AMBROSE CLANCY PHOTO How did the English language fare in 2016? Not to put too fine a point on it, but the last 12 months have been “unpresidented.”