Many thanks to Boston Globe word maven Jan Freeman, who devoted this week’s edition of “The Word” to answering my recent plea for enlightenment on the was/were usage dilemma. Jan does an excellent job of unraveling it.

Ditto for her turn as guest columnist for the New York Times’ On Language column,  where she gives a preview of her forthcoming book,  “Ambrose Bierce’s ‘Write It Right’: The Celebrated Cynic’s Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised and Annotated for 21st-Century Readers.”

Sounds like good clean grammatical fun.