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A correspondent writes to ask about the utterance 'She was very thick with the gardener', encountered in the Hercule Poirot episode...

A correspondent from the UK writes to say he has encountered a use of ignorant in an active sense. In this use, to say that X 'is ignor...

A correspondent, having encountered such usages as 'Do you read me?' and 'I'm reading you loud and clear' in radio inter...

 A correspondent writes to ask about a construction he came across in a Sherlock Holmes story, 'The Red-Headed League'. He noticed ...

A correspondent from BBC Radio 4's Front Row calls to ask whether I have any views about the name of the new James Bond movie, Skyfall ....

A correspondent writes from the USA about the news media’s collective decision to settle on Snowtober as their name on Twitter and in headl...

A correspondent writes to ask if he can say fairly much and still be grammatically correct? If we can have pretty much and very much , he ...