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    Marie Sinclair. (wiki)   Marie Sinclair (1830-1895) was the only surviving daughter of Don José de Mariategui, of Santa Catalina, the

Latin roots go straight down in the soil like a careful farmer's rows of planted beans. Germanic words are mushrooms growing on the same rotten log, to steal a priceless image from Anatoly Liberman. - D.R.H.

Words are meaningless. We give words meaning. We give words meaning to convey an idea. If a word does not convey an idea, then why bother using it? Have

In Nigeria, the issues of kidnapping have become recurrent incident making headlines of the country's dailies. Although, kidnap for ransom came to be more confirmed in the country by early 2000s in the oil rich Niger Delta region by various communities protesting for what they described as marginalization and environmental injustice caused on them as a result of the oil exploration activities by the international companies in the area.

An irresistible history of the OED reveals that English is a global language in its sources, its reach and its ownership.

President Joe Biden, in his State of the Union address before Congress on February 7, 2023, proposed a wealth tax on "billionaires." The lead editorial of The Wall Street Journal for February 11-12, 2023...

If you were looking for some fun on a weekend night around here back in the ’90s, you could do worse than the old Villa East Comedy Club out Lincoln

My exposition is written in honor of and as a tribute to Professor E. Peter Maher, who had explored the history of "hooker" in exhausting detail.

THE CRY OF PEONAGE ~ "Is this new form of slavery a reality?" That is the question Irvine asked himself as he read the sign: “100 Men Wanted.” It was

If there's one thing that years of creating and editing puzzles has told me, it's that dictionaries are, putting it politely, inconsistent