Language – Geoff Palmer

Cross-eyed bears and friendly ants

My late mother thought Gladly was rather a nice name for a bear, but as a child she could never[…]

The longest word in the English language is a whisker under 190,000 letters long and would take over an hour[…]

Benjamin Dreyer has compiled a list of redundancies, surplus words to delete from your writing where you’ve used two words[…]

Some years ago, a German friend – who speaks very good English – was visiting New Zealand and boarded a[…]

Many familiar English words and phrases have interesting derivations, and because England was once a great sea power, a surprising[…]