HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has said its name can be pronounced with either an “aitch” or a “haitch” because it respects ...

Some friends and I, with too much time on our hands, have long been collecting examples of such expressions, which we call ...

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I marvel at the new ways we find to describe a thing, name a feeling, or convey something new about our changing world,’ he says.

Dictionaries have selected enshittification, brain-rot and polarization as their 2024 Words of the Year. Each are ...

Dictionaries have selected enshittification, brain-rot and polarization as their 2024 Words of the Year. Each are depressingly apt reflections of the past 12 months. Roméo Dallaire’s latest book “The ...

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Enshittification , polarization, and brain-rot all are apt words for 2024. And they are all depressing. Roméo Dallaire’s ...

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The Oxford English dictionary defines ‘portable’ as “able to be easily carried or moved...” Now, I am using ‘portable’ to ...

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