There’s got to be something in the air. In recent weeks, I’ve gotten not one but two e-mails from readers about the word “got” and its cousin “gotten.” “I will never forget several teachers telling me ...

Subscribe to the Facts & Arguments podcast on iTunes. Click here to download and listen to the podcast later (right-click and choose "save target as"). On paper, it was a complete mismatch: the young, ...

One of the most amusing aspects of learning foreign languages is the discovery of hard-to-translate words. These extraordinary words that succinctly pack in them entire universes of cultural nuance ...