Most people in Spain are Spanish and speak Spanish. Most people in Italy are Italian and speak...
Author - Adam Kilgarriff
New Year’s resolution: no adverbs
Nouns are what the world is made of. Verbs are how you put them together. Adjectives are...
Google the ecosystem: what is a word worth?
In his TV documentary The Deep, David Attenborough relates how his team found a recently-dead whale...
Three English singletons
This post comes from Adam Kilgarriff, a linguist and a specialist in the area where linguistics...
Geoffrey was a subtle salmon
When I was thirteen, I went to a chess championship in Southend-on-Sea. It was grey and windswept...
Google the verb
Our next guest post comes from Adam Kilgarriff. Adam is a linguist, and a specialist in the area...