Words can offer a specific expression of complex human behaviour, and the word “tergiversation” is one of them. Even if the ...

The power of language lies in its ability to define human habits and values in a single word, and “abstemious” is indeed an ...

The word "sacrilegious" originates from the Latin word sacrilegious, which combines sacr- (meaning sacred) and legere ...

The real shock of generative AI is not automation but the loss of language as a human monopoly. An existential reckoning.

A newly-developed cipher could finally shine light on how the strange text of the Voynich manuscript was devised.

The Voynich manuscript is a 23.5 x 16.2cm book of about 240 pages, written in an unknown script sometime in the 1400s. The ...

Since well before President Donald Trump’s second term, the idea that the world should have three spheres of influence—an ...

Some names echo loudly through history, while others whisper from the margins, shaping thought and action in ways that rarely ...

The Latin tutor, as Shakespeare is called in the novel, loves her because she sees the world “as no one else does.” She loves ...

The world is living through a moment that political language continues, by habit and by cowardice, to describe as a crisis. The word is reas ...

Unlike the Traditional Latin Mass, which refers to the form of the Roman Rite prior to the reforms of Vatican II, ad orientem ...

Things don’t happen randomly. The shocking news of Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela broke on the 101stanniversary of Benito ...