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 ...

During an idle moment at a High Court hearing on the Burke case recently, I found myself wondering about the difference in meaning, if any, between the words “shouting” and “roaring”. Not that there ...