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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The English language is famous for being tricky with its spelling. It has letters you do not say, tricky endings, and words taken from other languages. Because of this, even people who have spoken ...

In Spare—Harry’s 2023 memoir—he describes the three words that first came to mind when he met Kate in the early 2000s. Harry and Kate’s once close relationship has cooled amid the ongoing ...

The English We Speak is your chance to catch up on the very latest English words and phrases. In under 3 minutes, we help you stay ahead of the pack by giving you 'must have' phrases that you can ...

The course consists of four parts: word formation (morphology), the history of English words, the meaning of words, and lexicography, i.e. the principles of dictionary creation. In the first part of ...