A Small Point of Usage Concerning Those “Alternative Facts”Kellyanne Conway’s factual sidestepping reflects a common grammatical confusion.PHOTOGRAPH BY MANUEL BALCE CENETA / AP Never pass up a teaching moment. Recently, some of my friends have spoken of “alternate facts,” and others of “alternative facts.” There is traditionally a difference between the adjectives “alternate” and “alternative.” “Alternate,” as in, say, “alternate fact checker,” refers to
