As noted last week, intonation is the rise and fall of pitch in the voice — when speaking. There is the need to master the concept and its manifestations to improve on our spoken English. Among other ...

Did you know 'Abracadabra' was originally a cure for fever? From the Roman clinics to Vedic ashrams, discover the history of ...

When you talk about the ‘moral’ of a story, you are referring to the lesson one can learn from it — for example, most of us ...

Plenty of roads in the United States have distinct names. Because of this, it's easy to forget that they had to be individually named in the first place.

Among all the great English poets across British literary history, Alexander Pope stands with only a few who are pillars of their age. We associate Shakespe ...

What to know SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Maria Murray is a proud bookworm. When she was a kid, she would frequent the local ...

In times of adversity, we might all benefit from a little sisu. Here's how people in the Seattle area define and live the ...

Liu, Y. and Luo, Y. (2026) A Corpus-Based Study of Musicality in Zhu Shenghao’s Translation of Shakespeare’s Four Great Tragedies. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 14, 425-438. doi: ...

It was the French historian Pierre Nora who coined the term lieux de mémoire – “sites of memory”. He meant to suggest that places and objects can embody or contain personal and collective memories, ...

Word of the day: Ineluctable is a recognition of forces that outlast intention. In writing, it functions as both a descriptor and a quiet verdict, signalling that the outcome, however delayed, is ...

Recalcitrant describes stubborn defiance against authority, rules, or change, stemming from the Latin for "kicking back." This adjective, used in various fields, highlights unreasonable and persistent ...

When a piece of paper carries your identity, your history, or your future, how it travels across languages matters far more ...