About Grammist
Real people check every answer before it goes up.
Grammist started because most grammar sites bury a simple answer under a long history lesson. We wanted something you could check in the time it takes to send a text, written by people who actually know the rule, not just the search volume around it.
Below is the team behind the site and the standard every entry has to meet before we publish it.
Who writes this
Four editors, each responsible for the sections closest to their own background.
Maya Reyes
Founding Editor
Maya spent six years as a copyeditor at a regional newspaper before starting Grammist, which is where the “answer first” format came from: newsroom style guides don’t have room for a preamble.
She writes and reviews most of the word-pair and spelling entries, and has final say on anything that goes out under the Grammist name.
Word pairs and spelling
Daniel Cho
Linguistics Editor
Daniel holds a master’s degree in linguistics and taught university writing courses for four years before joining Grammist full time.
He handles the entries that need more than a style guide, cases where a rule has genuine exceptions, and he’s the one who tracks down where a word or idiom actually came from.
Idioms, phrases, word origins
Priya Anand
ESL and Learning Editor
Priya is a certified TEFL instructor who taught English abroad for five years before moving into writing full time.
She writes with non-native speakers in mind first, which shapes how the site explains idioms, slang, and expressions that don’t translate literally.
Similes, metaphors, slang meanings
Owen Bennett
Style and Usage Editor
Owen worked in corporate communications for eight years, writing and editing the emails, memos, and reports that actually get read by a manager under deadline.
He runs the professional phrasing section, focused on saying something firmly or politely without it reading like a template.
Professional phrasing and synonymsHow we check what we publish
The same four steps apply whether the entry took ten minutes to write or three days.
Every answer is checked against a source, not memory
A dictionary, a recognized style guide (AP, Chicago, or Oxford, depending on the entry), or in disputed cases, more than one source compared side by side.
A second editor reads it before it goes live
Whoever didn’t write the entry reads it for accuracy first and clarity second. If they can’t tell what the answer is within the first sentence, it gets rewritten.
Corrections are made the same day
If a reader points out an error, we fix it and note the change. We’d rather be corrected in public than leave something wrong online because it’s embarrassing.
Nothing is published unread by a person
We use tools to speed up research the same way any newsroom does, but a named editor above reads and approves every entry before it goes on the site.
Found something we got wrong?
Tell us and we’ll fix it. That’s not a formality, it’s the whole point of listing our names above.
Send a correction