Years ago, nature writer extraordinaire ... Ireland, and Wales to describe land, the natural world, and weather. The words in Macfarlane's book came from dozens of languages, he explains ...

Spring is the time of year when my friends remember what a strange job I have, because a stripy insect has just appeared in ...

Now the name of a great tarmacked highway that slices through North London, ‘holloway’ was originally used to describe much humbler ... by letting these new words loose in your everyday ...