I was watching CSI or one of its spin-offs the other night, and included was a story...

Here's a depressing article about the state of American cultural and educational...

Let us shed some light on what is considered in the West as the greatest symbol...

I noticed in perusing my OED Online that the word "hubris" emerged initially in English...

From my experience, many English-speaking people insist a thumb is not a finger,...

Metrosexuals a no-no for linguists The Associated Press The TImes of India Thursday...

The airlines are considering a novel move: charge their overweight passengers more...

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In the newsgroup alt.english.usage , the term "dialect" was recently discussed, and...

[link] or "NEW ORLEANS An 8-year-old girl was suspended for nine days for bringing...

Dear all, I want to know if high school students in the US, Canada, or Britain learn...

Here in the UK we speak "the queen's English". So what the heck do they speak in...

Am I the only person who has become suprised by the new Pope? He never speaks Italian...

Contrary to what is reported by many, the world's shortest poem is not Fleas (Adam...

"School" "College" "University" They often seem to me to be interchangeable in AmE...

Could someone familiar with English university grading explain to me the system used...

I first remember encountering the term "politically correct" in a Wall Street Journal...

From a recent article in the New York Times: 'How the functioning of X chromosomes...

[link] article id=389412&in page id=1770 Dumbing down of Shakespeare: The translations...

Reading "My Name Is Michael Sibley" by John Bingham (1952), I ran across some terms...