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A correspondent (from Radio 4's 'World At One') rings up to ask me about the origins of shellacking , which has received a new l...

A correspondent has just sent me details of a new play on endangered languages. In fact, two. It's like London buses. None come for ages...

A correspondent writes to ask what I think of Rod Liddle's piece in this week's Sunday Times . It was headed 'Irish bard? You...

A correspondent has just written in with a puzzling remark. The message was from the American composer David Lang, and he wrote like this: I...

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 ...