The fact that trial by jury can, after 800 years, be swept away by the votes of Scottish MPs is a powerful argument for English independence. I submit this as a paraphrase of a post on X by George ...

When you’re producing information meant for public consumption, you need to be wary of the fact that you aren’t perfect—none of us is! That’s why you need to be humble and see the need to ask someone ...

Techdirt’s Mike Masnick on the history of the NSA and mass surveillance in America, and why Anthropic’s fight with the Pentagon should worry us.

Not long ago, a cellphone was a cell phone. A teenager was a teen-ager. Goodbye was good-bye. A website was a Web site. Legroom was leg room. Words and compounds evolve all the time. But in this ...

The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates warned that lies are not harmless distortions of reality; they are assaults on truth itself. Falsehood, he argued, is ...

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The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘frustration’ as the feeling of being upset or annoyed, especially because of the ...

In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he reveals what the ...

Swifties, it's your era now. Fans of Taylor Swift are officially part of the English language, after the latest update from ...

There’s no telling what will make a nonfiction bestseller. Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time and the late Erich von Däniken’s junk archaeology about “ancient astronauts” both seem implausible ...

Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to teach your students about the evolution of the English language? The History of English in Ten minutes has you covered. This is a dynamic YouTube video ...

Zoomers, we have bad news: your six or seven minutes in the vanguard of the cultural zeitgeist are officially over. The New York Times has published a fresh guide to Gen Z slang. It’s all downhill ...