Not long ago, a cellphone was a cell phone. A teenager was a teen-ager. Goodbye was good-bye. A website was a Web site. Legroom was leg room. Words and compounds evolve all the time. But in this ...

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In the course of drafting his story, Chandler was no less annoyed by Hollywood than by a new unlikely foe: an Atlantic copy editor, who’d shown the temerity to fix a split infinitive in his text.

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Two years ago, the Irish language school had 20 or 30 students attending lessons, now it has between 70 and 80.

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The peninsular tongue, Tamil, found in Robert Caldwell an admirer so ardent, yet so profoundly ambiguous, that his scholarly ...

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