Black beans meant “no,” while white beans meant “yes.” “The beans were supposed to be counted in secret, but if somebody ...

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

OPINION: As my kids get older, my beef with the English language often forces me to decide between handing down my gripes and ...

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That’s a difficult statistic to corroborate, not least because not every language has words in the way we would recognize them (and, for that matter, no one can really tell you for sure what a word ...

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 ...

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

It’s nearly three months since Cristiano Ronaldo broke down in tears after he had a penalty saved in Portugal’s last 16 tie ...

The final two chapters focus on recent changes in Irish food culture over the last six decades. Firstly, the growing ...

The United States is neither a nation nor a nation-state. Rather, it is a country of many different groups of people who have a variety of shared histories, cultures, languages and religions. In other ...

From TikTok to the kitchen table, words like “rizzler” and “skibidi” are finding a foothold in the lexicon of today’s tweens.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has criticized a tour company for allegedly misinforming fans about her books. Rowling, who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was inspired by the city to write the ...