My husband and I have a casual friend who is a musician in Eastern Europe. We are not very close and don't keep in touch regularly; we met several years ago at a folk-dancing event …

I find myself in great need of some wisdom from you and The Vine readers. 
First of all, my partner and I have been disagreeing on the question of "stuff" vs "stuffs" when referring to "stuff" …

I have a friend who is fond of contracting "I have," but not when saying "I have done x" — he likes to contract "I have [a job]" into "I've [a job]," and seeing it …

If I am describing how something relates to another thing, I generally use "in relation to" or "in respect of." However, I keep seeing the phrase "with respect to" used in the same way. My …

Mine is a question involving grammar and preserving my sanity. I work for a very wealthy family who, rather than solely passing on genetic markers, pass on one particularly grievous grammatical error. It started with …

My cat is perfectly well-behaved and I am happily married (30 years later!) to my high-school sweetheart, so of course this must be a grammar issue. It seems that too many people have forgotten the …

Hi! I'm an American teaching English in Russia, and I frequently field difficult questions from my students. I can almost always find a good answer for them, but this one is giving me issues:
Why do …

Hey Sars.
So here's the deal. My husband and I have four kids, one on the way, and two aging beagles. Everything was great — until all of a sudden it wasn't. Our fourth child was …

Sars,
I just had a seriously depressing epiphany about myself, and, as a result, went spelunking in your archives, unsuccessfully. I seem to recall a Vine within the last couple of years where folks went off …

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Dear Sars,
I've been trying to track down this radio ad that I heard in the recent past, and my inability to do so …