shashi tharoors world of words
The Watergate Legacy: A suffix that became famous for many controversies
“-gate” became the preferred suffix for all sorts of controversies, not justpolitical ones
shashi tharoors world of words
“-gate” became the preferred suffix for all sorts of controversies, not justpolitical ones
Shashi Tharoor's World of Words is a weekly column in which the politician, diplomat, writer and wordsmith par excellence dissects words and language
shashi tharoors world of words
Shashi Tharoor's World of Words is a weekly column in which the politician, diplomat, writer and wordsmith par excellence dissects words and language
shashi tharoors world of words
Languages don’t have to always be rational, but English probably wins the irrationality prize
Have you ever wondered why, in English, we say that a clock goes “tick-tock”, not “tock-tick”, or if it’s a grandfather clock, why it chimes the hours with a “ding-dong”, not a “dong-ding”?
They emerge from carelessness, or more accurately thoughtlessness
Shashi Tharoor looks at how English came to use many Irish words
There are now many more kinds of classifications of people by the food they eat, or don’t
A common error in the use of the language by over-enthusiastic speakers and writers, is a combination of two or more incompatible metaphors
Shashi Tharoor explains the history of the term that has taken the internet by storm