English was never the same after the Norman Conquest
We'll tell you all the perpendiculars
Figuring it out at once
What's with his feathered cap?
How an ancient philosophical movement devoted to the pursuit of virtue came to describe eye-rolling criticism.
Good news for those who feel stuffy saying 'whom.'
'Poets laureate'? 'Court-martials'? The curious history of postpositive adjectives in English.
