Ghulf Genes

The second person informal pronoun has dropped out of use in English. Evidently this began mid-way through the seventeenth century. Some peo...

In ordinary life people make distinctions between the practical and the philosophical. I hear people say: “Well, let’s not get too philosoph...

Some words carry such a heavy cargo of meanings that controversies can boil up around them almost spontaneously. “Liberal” is one such word,...