This article is reposted from the old WordPress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. The blog is on holiday until the start of October, when I’ll return with fresh material. For decades, ...

Many of us who write and speak in English will likely be surprised when told that unlike the Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian among them), English doesn’t have a ...

Have you ever felt that English could use a couple more tenses to truly capture the nuances of the past, present, and future? We’re inviting you on an exploration of languages that have taken verb ...