Ellen Jovin has traveled to all 50 states with her “Grammar Table,” and on Wednesday, she set up shop at the Lincoln Memorial to share her love of words with others. “I just sit there on the street ...

Despite frigid temperatures and the specter of the Philly area’s largest snowstorm in years, hundreds of language lovers and grammar nerds gathered in Bryn Mawr on Saturday for a screening of Rebel ...

Ellen Jovin is not the grammar police. She's more like a grammar guru, a gentle, nonjudgmental guide who knows English isn't etched into a linguistic stone, rigid and unchangeable. Instead, she knows ...

Ellen Jovin, an English language fanatic, was sitting in her New York apartment this summer feeling like it was too hot to do anything fun outside. So, she came up with an idea: a grammar table — ...

Four years ago I decided I needed to host a pop-up grammar-advice stand. The plan was simple: I’d sit on the streets of New York City and help people with their questions. I ordered a folding table, ...

Back on a hot day in the summer of 2019, author and communications teacher Ellen Jovin sat at a folding table she'd set up outside South Bend's Chocolate Café on South Michigan Street. As Jovin ...

WASHINGTON — A self-proclaimed word nerd is on a mission to answer your questions about language and grammar. Author and expert Ellen Jovin took her grammar table to the National Mall to answer ...

Four years ago I decided I needed to host a pop-up grammar-advice stand. The plan was simple: I’d sit on the streets of New York City and help people with their questions. I ordered a folding table, ...

Linguist and "Rebel Without a Clause" author Ellen Jovin at the Grammar Table. Alaska grammar nerds will be heartened to know that a self-described roving grammarian is in the state dispensing advice.

Four years ago I decided I needed to host a pop-up grammar-advice stand. The plan was simple: I’d sit on the streets of New York City and help people with their questions. I ordered a folding table, ...

I’ve sometimes idly wondered why so many people feel so strongly about grammar and the particular ways we write and speak. Think of the Twitter wars over the Oxford comma and Facebook arguments over ...