George Gopen thought it was a riot when he beat his college roommate in a pun contest. "If you keep maltreating your girlfriend, she will send you a dijon letter that says poupon you." While he loves ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Mark Forsyth knows that words matter. He understands, in a deep and structural way, why the phrase ...
The late Edwin Newman, author of two bestsellers on English usage, “Strictly Speaking” and “A Civil Tongue,” believed that all the flavor and color and eloquence of the English language are being ...
As a 7-year-old boy, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote his first story. When his mother read it, she remarked that his reference to a “green great dragon” was a mistake. Instead, she said, he should have written ...
When Anupurba Chatterjee explains why she enjoys learning from educative CDs, one is left just as impressed with her flawless English as with her understanding of multimedia. And as this Class 4 ...
George Gopen thought it was a riot when he beat his college roommate in a pun contest. "If you keep maltreating your girlfriend, she will send you a dijon letter that says poupon you." While he loves ...