One of the first indicators of an individual’s personality is the way he or she speaks. And...
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Add some French Spice!
Many English words have a French origin; these include, according to Wikipedia, art, competition...
Where’s the Anglo-Indian Cuisine?
Taking into account both the British East India Company period and the British Raj, the British...
What’s in a Name?
I always used to get confused between England, Great Britain, United Kingdom and the British Isles...
Who was your Susan Glenn?
This one is for the boys! Have you ever come across that perfect girl, the girl of your dreams, the...
Is it a Fact? Or is it a Factoid?
According to my copy of the Oxford Dictionary of English, a factoid is ‘an item of unreliable...
Nursery Crymes!
All of us have grown up on nursery rhymes. But have we ever tried to find out the history behind...
Stump them with Words!
The beauty of language is that it keeps adapting, adding new words into its lexicon. It is...
Too Posh to Wash!
A few years ago, the Economist ran an article ‘The Joy of Dirt’ – from which the title of...
Paraprosdokian!
A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the later part of a sentence or phrase is...