How We Work

The Parsery is written in two voices — Roger Fielding, our UK editor, and Samantha ("Sam") Callahan, our US editor. They're the personalities behind everything here: the articles, the columns, and the running argument over whether it's "England have" or "England has."

Here's the honest part — because a site about clear language should be clear about itself: Roger and Sam are editorial personas. Characters we write in, not real people you could ring up. We built them because grammar is easier to love from someone with a point of view than from a faceless "we," and because English genuinely splits along UK/US lines that two voices show better than one.

Our standard. Everything here is written and reviewed to a house standard by people who know the subject — the aim is for the grammar to be right, and to explain it in a way that actually helps. Where a point is genuinely contested, we say so rather than pretend there's one tidy answer. We use modern tools to help draft and cross-check the work, but the judgements — what's correct, what's a grey area, how a thing is best explained — are ours, and we stand behind them.

If we get it wrong, tell us. Language moves, and even careful editors miss things. Spot an error, or a rule you'd happily argue about? Let us know and we'll put it right. Being clear about the language includes being clear about ourselves.