Language

8th April 2021 0

The word 'quidnunc' first appeared around the year 1710, in Irish writer and politician Sir Richard Steele's journal The Tatler: 'The...

29th November 2017 0

Mobile slang has evolved as a distinct style of writing. Short forms and symbols have overtaken complete words. Where on...

19th July 2017 0

The inhabitants of La Gomera, one of Spain's Canary Islands, communicate in a very unique manner: using whistles. The language,...

3rd October 2016 0

'Go' is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. It is an imperative sentence that is basically used as...

2nd September 2016 0

Abstemious means ‘sparse use’ or ‘moderate intake of food and drink’; facetious means being ‘flippant’. Apart from their interesting meanings,...

31st August 2016 0

The island country Maldives, one of the most geographically dispersed countries, is a chain of twenty-six atolls spread around 90,000 sq km....