Me, Myself, I.
Solitude and solace in the dictionary
Words by Susie Dent
A lively look at the words making headlines, the words worth reviving, the words we really need, and the words with magnificently secret histories.
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The -ize have it
A tale of scapegoating (verb) in English
The sounds of silence
The ghostly letters that haunt our words, and why they matter
The weak (verb) shall inherit the earth
The unlikely power struggle in the English language
Twittering is not just for the birds
How you are probably multilingual without knowing it.
When moving on is difficult
A tale of linguistic woe
Hiding in plain sight
The stories of language that we stopped listening to
The Great Word Heist
How English has always borrowed to survive
Having one's cake, and all that malarkey
Have you ever used an everyday phrase and stopped for a moment to think Wait, that doesn’t actually make sense?
Perfecting the art of quiddling
I have just been reading about the origin of the word ‘bikeshedding’, which is to spend far too long on trivial tasks as a way of avoiding the important ones.
Ghost towns and ghost words
The impostors lurking in our reference books