Many years ago, when some young people I knew asked for my thoughts about a document they had composed, one of my observations was, they had used the word “media” as a singular noun, when in fact it’s ...

The most incorrect plurals among Italians? Cherries, suitcases, rain and oranges probably, but even compound nouns give us a lot ...

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 ...

The word "Bible" means "the book." In both the Latin and Greek languages the term "Biblia" is a plural noun and signifies "The Books." Originally, the Bible was not one book but a collection of books ...

As 2025 winds down, June Casagrande writes about the correct punctuation for all the holidays to come in 2026.

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

The relationship between mutual intelligibility and linguistic classification is famously complex, often boiling down to ...

For the first time since Partition, a university in Pakistan is teaching Sanskrit. It started as sociology professor Shahid ...

Discover the key differences between American English and British English in spelling, vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar ...

Chapeau it is a French word that literally means “hat”, but in the transition to Italian it has changed meaning: ...

Correspondence to Dr A Hirschmüller, Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Center for Surgery, Hugstetter Str. 55, Freiburg im Breisgau D-79106, Germany; ...