Writely or Wrongly book extract: The English language questions we should be asking
In this edited extract from her new book taking a quirky look at English, journalist Joanne Anderson ponders the burning questions few have thought to ask.
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In this edited extract from her new book taking a quirky look at English, journalist Joanne Anderson ponders the burning questions few have thought to ask.
In this edited extract from her new book taking a quirky look at English, journalist Joanne Anderson ponders the burning questions few have thought to ask.
In this edited extract from her new book taking a quirky look at English, journalist Joanne Anderson ponders the burning questions few have thought to ask.
Fonts as puzzles: Can you solve them? A font created by Erik and Martin Demaine. The Demaines, a father-and-son team of algorithmic typographers, have confected an entire suite of mathematically inspired typefaces. Erik Demaine, Martin Demaine and Katie Steckles via The New York Times. by Siobhan Roberts (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- The verb puzzle to perplex or confuse, bewilder or bemuse is of unknown origin. That kind of fits, said Martin Demaine, an artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its a puzzle where the word puzzle comes from. His son...