There’s a certain magic in the word “bucolic.” The way it rolls off the tongue can describe a running stream flowing through the trees as their leaves change color for the autumn season. It evokes a ...

When a word that literally means “vegetables” becomes the subject of a legal dispute, you start to wonder whether Britain’s ...

Hyphenaters used to be fearless. Bad to the bone. Unflinching in the face of multi-word adjectives that required two or even three hyphens. An editor would see the terms “anti” and “social” and “media ...

And when those white-sailed ships piled us together, cargo in the hull of hell, the word rode with us, our tongues anointed with the power of God. When the lash found our language, when they said ...