“Every outfit I tried on was either too casual, too loud or too frumpy.” A funny thing about language: When you use it without thinking, you usually do just fine. It’s only when you stop and question ...

"Two players are down; one for either team," the game announcer said. A reader said he had noticed a lot of people using "either" this way, to mean "each" or "both," and asked if it is correct.

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