In an age when ‘drip’ is a compliment and ‘extra’ is not, it is a very fine line between speaking properly and coming across ...

Romeyka, an endangered dialect of Greek spoken in the region of Trabzon and Pontus in northern Turkey, may get a new lease of ...

But more interesting, at least to word-collectors like me, is that their names all come from Native American languages.  They ...

Goldblum is a brilliant Zeus, but the standout performances are the three mortal characters who push, pull, drag and cajole ...

Henry W Fowler, author of Modern English Usage (1926), and Wilson Follett, author of Modern American Usage (1966), both included “barbarisms” as headwords in their guides. Fowler defined them as ...

But with more than half a million entries in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) alone as a starting point, it’s fair to say English is on the heftier side. Not all those hundreds of thousands of ...

We spend a lot of time fighting about words. Is a tomato a vegetable or a fruit? A lot of time has been spent—not to say wasted—arguing this point. We think of fruit as being sweet, and a tomato is ...

Recognized as a breed by the American Kennel Club in 2021, the Biewer terrier (pronounced like "beaver") is known for its fun ...

Part I When I finished my last article, “Metaphors, Meadows, MUNCH, and Models of the Large Language Kind,” I stated my ...

Speaking too soon is one thing, but then there’s another thing. There are always two things, right? That’s what I’m having trouble figuring out.

The Campbell Soup Company is based in Camden, and they've been around for many generations. Who didn't grow up having ...

92.7 WOBM AND GATEWAY TOYOTA OF TOMS RIVER HONOR MEGAN MILLER OF NEW EGYPT HIGH SCHOOL AS THE STUDENT OF THE WEEK. RANKED 2ND ...