From 100 per cent to the ancient origins of the “parting shot”, these are linguistic quirks that keep readers up at night.

“Gifted” used to be an adjective, basically used as a term for smarty-pants kids. Or, to broaden it, to describe anybody with unusually strong abilities that they were born with. Like, say, not just a ...

From commas and apostrophes to verb tenses and clauses, this 30-question UK English-inspired quiz puts your everyday language ...

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Death can no longer present itself as an abstract noun for someone who was grievously stabbed more than a dozen times, after ...