Now that the recently-senile and always-bungling old pope is at last gone, perhaps...

Recently, we've had a discussion on the "rank" of various countries, in particular...

English spelling is much less phonetic than other European languages such as Italian...

There's a new page on the alt-usage-english site, showing the pronunciation of some...

"Times the number by a thousand." Is this construction: (1) Rural/regional? (2) Childish...

I wonder if other languages than English have the word "teenager" and the associated...

From the BBC's web site today 'Liberal black Congressman Charles Rangel said of...

Here's a fun test. The BBC has a "Spot the fake smile" test. 20 pictures of people...

I've noticed that there are considerable differences in capitalization of proprietary...

If I am writing an article about paper money, to a world-wide readership, including...

"The centre/center question is a good example of why this is difficult. "Center"...

Still musing about this pronoun question, I ran some searches with some surprising...

Having written many business letters I know that to convey a somewhat unfriendly...

I've just come across the above-named volume by Lynne Truss: ISBN 1 86197 6127 It...

I was just thinking about this the other day, and since a good example drifted by...

Diane Mott Davidson I don't know why I torture myself by reading this lady's books...

Saw this interesting spelling on the website of a young black person: "Dis part...

I've just been reading "A suitable vengeance" by Elizabeth George, and have found...

Greetings. I work in a German research centre, and as one of only two native English...

I am working on a "simple" computer program to convert numbers to long form english...