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

The scientific and research team behind the Historical Dictionary will continue their diligent work in collaboration with the ...

The Ruler of Sharjah warmly welcomed a diverse gathering of scholars and researchers from across Europe at the conference, ...

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 ...

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

Whether you know your Scriptures chapter and verse or you rarely take a peek at the Good Book, these Bible facts will ...

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

With American kids back in school, they’re likely to return home with an alien language their own parents may find befuddling ...

The definition of an aphrodisiac in the Oxford English Dictionary is “A drug or preparation inducing sexual desire”; and ... Indeed the name “orchid” comes from the Greek word for a testicle, ὄρχις, ...

One thing I like to do when I’m reading and writing is to train a spotlight on a particular word and find as much out as I ...

The first match of each day of the Guadalajara Open Akron WTA 500 tournament this week will be automatically translated by ...