about grammaxis
/ˈgram-ak-sis/ noun: two people who got tired of guessing, so they wrote it all downGrammaxis started as a shared document between two writers who kept looking up the same words over and over. Instead of bookmarking another dictionary, they built the site they actually wanted to use.
Grammaxis exists for the moment right before you hit send. You reread a sentence, something looks off, and you’re not sure if it’s actually wrong or just unfamiliar. That split second of doubt is what this whole site is built around.
We are not grammar teachers, and we are not trying to sound like a textbook. We are two writers who have made every mistake on this site at least once ourselves, usually in an email we could not take back.
So we started keeping notes. A word here, a phrase there, the kind of thing you search for, get an answer to, and forget five minutes later because nobody explained it in a way that stuck. Grammaxis is that note collection, cleaned up and made public.
The two of us
No ghostwriters, no outsourced content mill. Every page on this site passes through one of us before it goes live.
Clara Montgomery
co-founder, spelling & word formsClara spent years editing other people’s writing before she started Grammaxis, which is exactly why she notices the small stuff. Missing letters, doubled consonants, plurals that quietly break the rules. She still keeps a running list of words she has personally misspelled in a work email.
Beatrice Thornton
co-founder, everyday languageBeatrice comes from a business writing background, where she spent a lot of time rewriting stiff emails into ones people would actually want to read. She is the one who keeps track of new slang before it shows up in a group chat and nobody knows what it means.
Three steps, every single time
Nothing fancy. We just do it the same way for every word so the site stays consistent.
Start with the real question
We write the page around the exact way people ask it, not the formal version a textbook would use.
Check it against a real source
Every answer gets checked against a dictionary or style guide before it goes on the page. We do not guess.
Show it in a real sentence
A definition alone rarely helps. We add an example so you can see the word doing its actual job.
Got a word we haven’t covered?
Send it over. If people are searching for it, there is a good chance we will end up writing about it.