A knowledge of past Wordle answers may well have helped then, although you'd need to go back a little further for some other ...

That’s it. I’m at the end of my rope. Or, more appropriately, “my rope’s end” — because what I’m so worked up about is the growing misuse of that puny piece of punctuation called the apostrophe. The ...

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

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

In Greece, few words stir up visions of Christmas better than "kourabies" and "melomakarono," the two seasonal sweets with ancient roots.

Paul Greene’s mini-rant has Hallmark fans cracking up. See what he said and the hilarious comments, plus details on his most ...

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 ...

Life is so unpredictable that it rarely unfolds in a straight line. Instead, it twists and turns, rising with the positive and falling with the negative. There’s a word for this ever-shifting nature ...

Trudeau, who has been prime minister since 2015... Any post mentioned without reference to the post-holder should be in lower case - e.g. The prime minister will be out of the country for several days ...

A friend emailed recently to ask about the grammar on a T-shirt that read: “The only minority destroying the country are the billionaires.” His question: “Am I wrong or is the grammar on her T-shirt ...