Just when you think you’ve seen it all, ugly jumps up and gobsmacks you alongside the head. Now, to be fair, ugly and ...

TO better appreciate the value of free modifiers, particularly of the kind that works in the same league as resumptive ...

Those brightly wrapped packages we exchange around the holidays and other special occasions: Sometimes we call them “gifts,” ...

It is these two nationalities waving the flag of two different language symbols that cover the largest and most extensive language users in the world. Therefore, the comparative study of English and ...

It's nothing to do with his essays on political transcendentalism and proto-anarchism, but entirely due to an inconspicuous ...

Oxford University Press narrowed a list down to six words and the world had the opportunity to vote for its top choice.

So if you “elucidate”(verb) or are “lucid,” (noun and adjective), you are a smart person shining a light on a subject and ...

There Italian languagedespite being phonetically regular (it is pronounced “as it is written”, although with exceptions), has ...

IN last week's column we discussed the resumptive modifier. We saw that by using a key word in the main clause as the subject ...

There is a growing proportion of transgender and nonbinary people worldwide, and the practice of addressing this group by ...