If you have been watching Game of Thrones, then you would have heard the word “wight”. In literature this word is used to refer to some kind of supernatural entity,… Read More

We live and breathe language. We take it so for granted that we often don’t realise how amazing it is. Even someone who spends most of their time with language,… Read More

Sometimes the simplest words can actually turn out to not be simple at all. We only see them as simple because we use them every day, but we don’t realise… Read More

We have “tall”, “taller”, and “tallest”, “high”, “higher” and “highest”, “big”, “bigger” and “biggest”. Why do we not have “good”, “gooder” and “goodest”? Or rather, why is it not something… Read More

Languages change over time. Here is the Lord’s Prayer from the King Jame’s Bible Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us… Read More