Here are five notable changes to the new edition: The CMOS now endorses generic singular “they.” ...
Sophisticated birdsong follows strict grammatical rules, much like human sentences. But what happens when birds can’t hear ...
You know like, “of” or “in” or “at.” Here’s what Churchill had to say about that: “This is the sort of bloody nonsense up ...
The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language by Edward Wilson-Lee finds in Giovanni Pico della Mirandola a case for the Rennaissance as a triumph not of individuality, but of ...
The Cambridge English exam is a language proficiency test. Known as the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), it is the international benchmark for assessing language skills.
It’s the hard graft of touring that pays his bills. Guy Martin does have a proper job, as a lorry mechanic, in addition to his career as a motorcycle racer. He’s never pretended that his TV es ...