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 Tharoor's World of Words is a weekly column in which the politician, diplomat, writer and wordsmith par excellence dissects words and language
Shashi Tharoor’s World of Words is a weekly column in which the politician, diplomat and wordsmith par excellence will dissect words and language
If “blurb” seemed an unlikely eponym, so too does “candy”, which traditional linguists believe is derived from the Sanskrit word Kharidakah
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Many a book-lover considers dog-earing a book to be a barbaric practice, though, and would consider you guilty of the sin of bibliclasm, the act of spoiling a book knowingly
Many other countries adopted new names immediately upon independence from colonial rule
Anaphora helps reinforce understanding because its repetitions make it easier to remember
Historic events can have their own impact on the language
The Covid pandemic and associated lockdowns have also enhanced the game’s appeal — it’s an ideal activity for those involuntary indoor hours that many don’t know how to fill
At first, screen time referred to the amount of time someone appeared in front of a camera in a movie but now it means the time an individual spends in front of the screen of his mobile phone or computer
William’s followers became a new French ruling class and, like colonizers everywhere, imposed their language on the society they now ruled