Americans call football “soccer” & autumn “fall”, older English words that fell into disuse in the UK. Many other words are ...

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When cultural preservation comes at the expense of speakers’ decisions, sometimes it's O.K. to let a language die.

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The danger, to me, is a political movement that opposed our equality long before most Americans had ever heard the word ...

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A lawyer has confirmed a hosepipe rule means £1,000 fines for households. A lawyer has urged households to snitch on neighbours if they use a hosepipe during ban - because it means a £1k fine. Paul ...

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When the five-person committee that drafted the U.S. Declaration of Independence declared it to be “self-evident” that there was a right to “the pursuit of Happiness,” what manner of happiness did ...

Ahead of England’s first knockout game of the World Cup, Love Letter to England celebrates what English people have in common What does it mean to be English? Ahead of England’s first knockout game of ...

Mr. Sunstein is a law professor at Harvard. Mr. Hamburger is a law professor at Columbia. The Supreme Court embraced the “unitary executive” legal theory on Monday, finding that President Trump could ...