That’s a lesson that, according to a Twitter post, a teacher recently passed on to a child. In context, the lesson seems a little less atrocious: The teacher was talking about the first sentence in a ...

To listen to the media tell it, "so" is busting out all over — or at least at the beginning of a sentence. New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas calls "so" the new "um" and "like"; others call ...

So everyone is starting their sentences with the word "so" these days. Fast Company recently attacked the use of "so" at the start of sentences, claiming it insults your audience, undermines your ...