If you’ve been on the lookout for some truly inspiring reads for the young girls (and boys) in your life, you’ve come to ...

RR reader Doug Jones shares his story from last Saturday’s trip to Wembley, and we’ve got more reaction to our win over the ...

We can see that Japanese insults when translating do not have a correct meaning, they can mean several words in English, we also notice the use of additions and modifications of words, as in the case ...

When Susie Dent, Countdown’s etymology guru, declared on Wednesday that the common mispronunciation of “mischievous” as “mischiev-i-ous” should now be considered acceptable, she caused a stir not just ...

Just as Caesar thought his friend Brutus was the last man on Earth who would betray him, so I imagined Susie Dent would ...

ON the list of winners, Millwall are rubbing shoulders with giants.  Between Tottenham Hotspur in 1990 and Manchester ...

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

As the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure argued, language constitutes our world, it doesn’t just record it or label it. Words ...

As states rush to address falling literacy scores, a new kind of education debate in state legislatures is taking hold: not ...

The passageway had become an ancient corridor where shadows fought enemies on the wall, and her comfortable kitchen, a temple ...

A month after Steve Irwin’s son Robert Irwin was announced as the first celebrity partner on Dancing With the Stars season 34 ...