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A correspondent, having encountered the idiom long time no see , writes to ask what its origin is and if there are any more like it in Engli...

I've been asked a couple of times what one calls a situation where a word is used to mean the opposite of what it normally means. I'...

A correspondent writes to ask whether it is possible to use sentences like I've been studying English since four years ago and Since th...

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...