I’ve always been a numbers guy. In elementary school, if anyone made fun of my disproportionately large head, I would withhold answers to math homework.

A recent writer complained of Voting and Abortion rights, particularly the use of the plural number. Let’s take that first. It’s simple grammar. If multiple people possess a thing, Then they ...

The set of words “there’s a number of reasons” yields almost 3 million hits on Google. But the phrase “there are a number of reasons” returns more than 63 million results. And perhaps ...