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

Brands can shatter when their core meaning breaks. This article examines why. It looks at companies like Kodak, Volkswagen, and Boeing. These brands failed because their actions did not match their ...

Parts of speech are dumbfounded  A visitor tells a boy who answers the door that he’s come to meet his mother, and gets the sullen reply, ‘She was in, she is  out!’ The aghast ...

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

A team of researchers from Saarbrücken and Leipzig has examined around 1,700 languages to identify structures that might occur universally. Of 191 grammatical patterns – known as linguistic universals ...

Explore the meanings and pronunciations of "censure" and idioms like "too big for one's boots" in this informative guide.

The ideas presented in George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan's The Neural Mind are fascinating, but the writing is far less ...

Two of the groups most bent on abusing AI are unethical product makers and marketers. Since people still depend on reviews to ...

Piikishkweetaak aan Michif! / Let’s Speak Michif is part of SJASD’s ongoing commitment to reconciliation and to honouring the calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as our ...

If you’re looking for hints and answers for Monday, December 8, 2025 with the theme “Grammatically speaking,” read on.

The New York Times’ growing catalogue of digital word puzzles drew renewed attention today as players logged in for NYT ...

Most of us like to think we're in control of our communication. We choose what to say, what opinions to share, what feelings ...