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In times of emergency, previously unfamiliar terms rapidly enter daily life
Working from home will leave us sticklers with more time to stickle
Neologisms and ugly phrases are only a problem when they muddy meaning for outsiders
With or without an Oxford comma, the wording on the 50p falls flat
Learning another language is worthwhile for its insights into new ways of thinking
‘Orwell had me convinced that clear speech was an auxiliary to truth, until Trump came along’
Compulsory foreign languages in schools will boost skills
If something is true and simply demonstrated, why not offer that demonstration?
The cannabis compound is being added to everything from face cream to dog food
The Latin phrase has been at the centre of a scandal over Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine
A social media phenomenon that took the impulse to disrupt to extremes
Boris Johnson’s futile attempt to close down the UK parliament was not his finest hour
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg put the backlash against air travel centre stage
Four freshmen Democrats banded together to push a progressive agenda
By mid-2019, this once-unthinkable quirk of the bond market had exploded to extremes
Boris Johnson’s slur has been successfully co-opted for the feminist cause
Regulators and privacy campaigners united in distrust of Facebook’s cryptocurrency
Donald Trump wanted to buy the resources-rich island but the Danes called him ‘absurd’
A look at the words that defined 2019
The company’s dramatic fall offers warnings for other tech companies
Hong Kong protesters take inspiration from Bruce Lee’s philosophy
The disintegration of US-China relations may be the most important economic event of our times
An endangered punctuation mark is being forced into extinction by the internet. Will it soon only exist in the pedant tense?
Do not beat about the bush with idioms when it comes to making your meaning clear
There is the seed of a useful idea floating somewhere at the bottom of the swamp of mixed metaphor
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