It took more than 70 years and tons of volunteer labor to create “the definitive record of the English language”—including an assist from a murderer. When the London Philological Society came up with ...

You know that feeling when you’re bored, but you want to describe it in a philosophically complex kind of way? It’s like you’re too jaded to be entertained but too alive to be asleep. It’s not quite ...

Colm O’Regan’s entertaining account of the Irish version of the English language is an etymologist’s delight, being nicely scholarly, but it wears its learning lightly, which means it’s accessible to ...

A curious expression, he or she is busing tables at a restaurant or family diner. Bussers make sure the business runs smoothly. But why do we call them that? There’s no bus parked ...

You may already know that coffins and caskets are different things – the same is true for cemeteries and graveyards. Even ghosts and ghouls have a gory distinction. But, though spooky season has ...

For one, artists, educators and podcasters should embrace their accents and dialectic speech as identity rather than liability. Multilingual creators should use hybrid English, things like Spanglish, ...

Story has long been a synonym for "floor," or the level of a building. It often seems like we use story when on the exterior ("that building must be 20 stories tall") and floor when inside ("we're on ...

Without such a framework, the language risks continued fragmentation, inconsistent development, and limited functionality in ...

Which brings us to Ukraine, where traditionally the dead were honoured on Vele’s Night, also Oct. 31, and so named for the ancient Slavic god of the underworld, Veles. But who can bear to imagine how ...

Fela Ransome Kuti-Kuti & The Koola Lobitos; Fela Ransome Kuti & the Africa 70s; Fela Anikulapo-Kuti & The Egypt 80s Band.

Caroline Banton has 6+ years of experience as a writer of business and finance articles. She also writes biographies for Story Terrace. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, ...

In 1665, about a quarter of all Londoners died of the Great Plague—but bubonic plague wasn’t the only deadly disease circulating in the city. A published register, called London’s Dreadful Visitation, ...