If you want to explain why you’re doing something in German, you’ll often need a phrase that means “in order to”. German has ...

Parts of speech are dumbfounded  A visitor tells a boy who answers the door that he’s come to meet his mother, and gets the sullen reply, ‘She was in, she is  out!’ The aghast ...

Brands can shatter when their core meaning breaks. This article examines why. It looks at companies like Kodak, Volkswagen, and Boeing. These brands failed because their actions did not match their ...

The preceding chapter showed how sentences can be streamlined by reducing their adjective clauses to adjective phrases — a simple process that omits the relative pronouns “that,” “which,” “who,” “whom ...

A former Kaduna Central lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has called for dialogue and peaceful resolution following the life imprisonment sentence handed to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, ...

In 1940, St. Clair McKelway typed a memo to William Shawn, The New Yorker’s managing editor for fact. McKelway was writing a six-part Profile of Walter Winchell for the magazine, and he was unhappy ...

One of the most significant shifts is the acceptance of they as a singular pronoun. It replaces clunky constructions like he or she and is both grammatically sound and inclusive. Think: “Each person ...

That one word speaks volumes. By John McWhorter A.I. and spell-check make choices for writers. With real, physical dictionaries, writers are empowered to decide how to express themselves. By ...

Even with credit for time served, Diddy, 55, wouldn’t be free to break out the baby oil until 2031. Diddy shouldn’t plan that freak-off just yet. He should keep the baby oil in the medicine cabinet.

Thousands of Haitians with TPS in Ohio face imminent deportation as the program ends in September. Haitian community leaders and advocates argue that returning to Haiti is unsafe due to gang violence ...

Everybody likes ghazals. Or they do when they learn what they are: A ghazal is a poetic form originating in and strongly associated with the Islamic cultural sphere. It is a medieval thing—or what ...