Newly unsealed documents accuse the judge presiding over the Wisconsin fake electors case against President Donald Trump’s ...

Across the United States, a quiet linguistic shift is underway, reshaping how people speak in ways that are easy to miss in ...

Things tend to wear out, like old shoes and the knees in pants. So we throw them out. No big deal, right? A “usefulness” cycle. Worn out linguistic habits also need regular pruning. Being a deeply ...

Charlie Simpleton gets an early acceptance letter to a major California university. Charlie: Look, Ma! I think I got an early acceptance to the school I always wanted to go. I’m going to be a cottage ...

The preceding chapter showed how sentences can be streamlined by reducing their adjective clauses to adjective phrases — a simple process that omits the relative pronouns “that,” “which,” “who,” “whom ...

We can imagine someone saying “my love is literally a rose,” but that is to use “literally”  metaphorically, as an emphatic adverb, like “really.” ...

Phrasal verbs, or multi-word verbs, are verbs that are combined with one or two particles (a preposition or adverb), for ...

Phrasal verbs, or multi-word verbs, are verbs that are combined with one or two particles (a preposition or an adverb), for ...

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is set to return to the stage in Scotland - and not before time says Herald arts writer Brian Beacom ...

The Strand, which today has its western limit at Trafalgar Square, was first recorded in the Roman period, as the ...