shashi tharoors world of words
Shouldn’t cheese be the plural of choose? Must-read hilarious quirks of English language
Languages don’t have to always be rational, but English probably wins the irrationality prize
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
There are four types of misprints that tend to evoke hilarity
shashi tharoors world of words
Here are the origins of some more Americanisms that are in common usage wherever English is spoken
Shashi Tharoor's World of Words is a weekly column in which the politician, diplomat, writer and wordsmith par excellence dissects words and language