Skeptophilia

We were having dinner with our younger son a while back, and he asked if there was a common origin for the - naut  in astronaut  and the nau...

As a linguist, one of the things you have to get used to is that languages change. The denial of this basic fact is at the heart of the argu...

Like a lot of couples, my wife and I have a great many inside jokes and turns of phrase that amuse us no end but must puzzle the hell out of...