Randy Newman’s ingenious lyricism earned him devoted fans but not mainstream success. His turn to Hollywood would bring wider ...

Whether you’re watching a movie or reading the news, it’s hard to avoid villainous, heinous, wicked behavior—but we all could ...

This book shows that his love of words in the English language extends far beyond his occasional sesquipedalian salvos that leave us slack-jawed. Indeed, the work is a testament to Tharoor’s ...

Adapted from the German books by Mona Kasten, Prime Video's "Maxton Hall" hit No. 1 on the platform's charts and became its ...

According to the Oxford English Corpus ... There can be a few reasons why a language might borrow words - though the ‘borrowing’ is metaphorical as the words are often kept.

Randy Newman is so influential that his songwriting style has become shorthand for smart and searingly witty. The albums Good Old Boys and Sail Away are ...

These few instances of pontification aside, the rest of the book is a fun ... a copy of A Wonderland of Words, written by arguably India’s most well-spoken man (in English), should be a handy ...

LC:Silent letters are found in lots of English words and because you can’t hear them when you say the word it makes spelling these words really tricky. Bahhh. We all know this is a lamb ahhhh ...

Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation. Founded in 2003, WWB seeks to expand ...

For the record, the OED cites the use of "sef" by author Ben Okri in his 1980 book Flowers and Shadows. But in accepting Nigerian words, along with past inclusions from the rest of the English ...

Texas had the third-highest number of book bans last school year, with only a few school districts responsible for the ...