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A correspondent writes to ask about the difference between tallest and highest in such sentences as Everest and K2 are the two tallest mou...

A correspondent writes to say she had read an interview in Rolling Stone with the cast of AMC’s Mad Men , where one of the actors said they...

Several media correspondents have been in touch this week to discuss the report that the OED may not have a further print edition. Whether ...

A correspondent writes to say that she has found such sentences as these on the internet: Keeping these things in mind, you can look well in...

Radio 4's 'PM' programme get in touch today to ask for a comment about insult language. Apparently an Iranian minister has descr...

A correspondent writes to ask if the English present progressive with future meaning can be used to talk about the distant future. As an exa...

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...