Why Stanford does not approve of the word 'addict' Shashi Tharoor's World of Words is a weekly column on language
Why you can't 'bury the hatchet' at Stanford Shashi Tharoor's World of Words is a weekly column on language
Did you know these are the most hated English words? Some feature regularly in lists of people’s least favourite words in English: “vomit” is a perennial peeve, but some dislikes are more irrational
Why's there a 'b' in subtle? Understanding the logic of silent letters Shashi Tharoor's World of Words is a weekly column dissecting language
Did you know this was the origin of the word 'OK'? The funny thing about the etymology of the word is that its origin is “literally a joke”
'See referees': Here are words and phrases that read the same backwards and forwards Shashi Tharoor's World of Words is a weekly column that dissects English language
Guess the 'palindromes' in these sentences The word 'palindrome' was coined by the seventeenth-century English dramatist Ben Jonson, but the person usually credited with inventing it was Sotades of Maroneia (in ancient Greece)
Did you know that these words don't exist in English? If you look around the world, there are several more emotions captured in other languages which describe feelings that cannot be expressed so easily in English
From toska to lagom: Words that exist in other languages to express concepts that have no English equivalent There are numerous words in other languages to express ideas and emotions for which there is no English equivalent
From FOMO to JOMO: 11 acronyms you must know New acronyms have come on stream, so it’s time to revisit them for a quick update
