NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with John McWhorter, Columbia University linguist and New York Times columnist about the recent Merriam-Webster declaration that English sentences may end with prepositions.

A recent inquiry on a linguistics email list wanted to know why news reporters stress prepositions and say things like "Lambing is now taking place in the barn" or "The rules, and the interpretation ...

Have we ever attended a function when a special guest, a famous person perhaps, a talented athlete maybe, is prevailed upon to “say a few short words”?Often, sadly, what the special guest then does is ...

Prepositions are words that show the relationship between a noun and something else in a sentence. Words like 'on', 'under' and 'inside', as well as phrases like 'next to', 'in front of', and 'on top ...