English Is a Living Language — Period
Feb. 8, 2022 Subscriber-only Newsletter John McWhorter Delcan and Co. I love it whenever I see it: “‘Free Pickup and Delivery,’” “‘Fresh Fish’” and the like. I refer to signage on which quotation marks are used to indicate neither … Read More
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor: The English Language Institute’s closure is a tragic step back In response to a recent letter to the editor, a former English Language Institute student offers his perspective on the program’s closure. Echo Chen (Illustration by … Read More
February Vocabulary Challenge: Invent a Word
Come up with your own addition to the English language. Suggest a new word by Feb. 28, and it could become our April Fools’ Word of the Day. The Twitter account @nyt_first_said posted these words when they first … Read More