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What on earth is a nat-gih?
July 14 2019
A worryingly good argument made in favour of emoticons
July 8 2019
Whatever became of Wallet Bayonet?
June 30 2019
You might be a Perthling or a Glenrothesian, it’s your demonym
June 24 2019
£364,000 bill for health board translators revealed
June 24 2019
And you thought World War Z was a zombie movie . . .
June 17 2019
A builder can’t create a house unless he knows what a brick is
June 9 2019
At what point does green become blue?
June 2 2019
We all have idiolects, but some are more annoying than others
May 28 2019
Cats and dogs, stair rods, and Nanook — you’ve got to love a good idiom
May 21 2019
ALEX BELL: A farewell to the last of the great Scots scholars
May 16 2019
Synonyms: There aren’t two different words that mean exactly the same thing…with one exception
May 6 2019
Litotes: stating a negative to affirm a positive
April 30 2019
Why I like the sound of Team UK
April 16 2019
The danger of mishearing a word – then failing to check its spelling
April 6 2019
Can you name the nine parts of speech?
April 2 2019
Man woke from coma only able to speak language he’d stopped speaking aged 5
March 29 2019
An infuriating change to our language is under way
March 27 2019
Flower of Scotland is a defeatist dirge
March 16 2019
Uwu… mukbang… gekyume… zaddy: Do you know the meaning of ANY of Google’s top rising words of 2018?
March 15 2019
How could anyone confuse to, too and two?
March 10 2019
Wrack and ruin is not rack and ruin
March 6 2019
Is the spread of Gaelic inexorable?
February 27 2019
This is either the best article you’ll ever read — or I’m exaggerating
February 20 2019