Some common if questionable English usage may be technically wrong but just fine in real life, while other usage may depend ...

Ränta is the Swedish word for interest, in the sense of money paid by a borrower to a lender. It comes originally from Middle ...

L ate in his career, the English poet W. H. Auden distilled the whole business of poetry into three pungent lines: “A poet’s ...

We take a deep and highly pedantic dive into the name of a Pacific Northwest bank that also happens to be the name of a river ...

The Infinite Monkey Theorem hypothesizes that, given a typewriter and an infinite amount of time, a monkey could in theory ...

Experts from Unscramblerer.com analyzed Google Trends in 2024 through Oct. 25 to determine the slang words most searched for in the "ever-changing" English language. "Many slang words are born ...

If you’re writing a book about the Westies, Hell’s Kitchen’s most notorious gangsters, there’s only one group of critics you ...

The protestors are members of Official Street Preachers, an organization that ‘covers global and local events from a Christian perspective’ ...

I was an editor once, but the subject was local music ... Not everybody was an English major, and an obit may be submitted ...

So many times, we left the Gaelic Grounds and headed silently and sullenly home on the Ballysimon road. Are we ever going to do it? And then, we just did.

This is Cascada, which is not pronounced like you‘ve probably been saying it, adding an “ah” sound to the English word “cascade.” Actually, it’s the Spanish word for “waterfall,” p ...

The year I began my tenure at the paper, Darrell celebrated 25 years of writing about the personalities ... but is roughly 550 words each. His words encompassed roughly a mile and a half of ...