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A guest appearance on BBC Radio 4's 'Saturday Live' last week has initiated a flurry of correspondence, and the only place to fo...

A correspondent from the US has sent me the list of winners in a recent New York Magazine contest in which you had to take a well-known expr...

A correspondent writes to ask why we say a drinks cabinet and not a drink cabinet , given that people use the singular form of nouns when t...

A correspondent from the Guardian has asked what is to be made of David Cameron's reported comment that 'Our success will be the me...

Following the amazing discovery of the H Quarto of Hamlet (see the post for 21 August 2007), I now use the occasion of Shakespeare's bi...

A correspondent writes to ask if it should be disoriented or disorientated . The answer partly depends on where you live. If you're Ame...

A correspondent writes to ask if singing is ever used in speech. She isn't thinking of intonation, sometimes described in a metaphorical...