Geoff Dyer recalls his youth in midcentury Britain, marked by a free-roaming childhood and limited expectations about the ...

At its most basic, dude just means a guy or a person (“that dude over there”). But dude is one of the most versatile words in ...

Get ready for the arresting truth about your go-to word for police officers. Here's the surprising origin of the word "cop." ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

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 ...

A book that has inspired many adaptations, writers, and people themselves has been named the "best book of all time". The 1813 classic has also been highlighted as a "true English literary masterpiece ...

Drop these facts about the grammar in your favorite carols when you're out caroling this holiday season. Notice the comma placement there? The gentlemen in this phrase are not necessarily taken to be ...

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Lessons from Life by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is a hit. The Arabic edition sold out fast, and the English version’s now in high demand. With 35 chapters packed with leadership wisdom and ...