The tireless Congregational minister, abolitionist and author Josiah Conder lived in Watford Field House from 1824 until 1839 ...

We continue our week-long coverage of Catherine Chidgey's latest novel with an interview on the craft of fiction ...

Last man out. In 1946, shortly after leaping from a plummeting B-24 bomber and hiding in caves from Nazi patrols for six ...

Another made up word is “gifted.” Too many people say, “I gifted…” Folks, the word “gift” is a noun. It is not a verb. You can give a gift; you can receive a gift, but “gifting someone something” is ...

Class 1 and 2 English textbooks have been titled 'Mridang', while Class 3 English book is now called 'Santoor'. The Class 6 English book Honeysuckle has been renamed Poorvi. The decision has drawn ...

Two new books examine efforts to standardize English orthography and the pronouns at the heart of our culture wars, finding that spelling and usage have never conformed to any rules. Credit ...

In Enough is Enuf, writer Gabe Henry wittily and engagingly confronts all of these questions head-on and arrives at a surprising answer: We actually have tried, on many occasions across numerous ...

They rebelled against our irregular English orthography—you know ... a publishing house that would print books about spelling reform well into the 1920s. (Burnz was so committed to phonetic ...