A Word, Please: Unlearning rules that were once held dear

It's difficult but important to abandon something you thought you knew, but didn't. Even with the rules of grammar.
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I tried the '3-word rule' with ChatGPT-5 and I got way better responses — 7 prompts to try now

One of the biggest complaints about ChatGPT-5 is that users have been frustrated by vague and underwhelming responses. Users with a ChatGPT Plus account can go back to the legacy model ChatGPT-4o, and ...
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A Word, Please: The mistaken ‘rule’ we haven’t heard the last of

When I first started writing this column in the early aughts, readers would often complain to me about sentence-ending prepositions. Or, to put that ironically: Sentence-ending prepositions were ...