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 ...
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 ...
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 ...