In Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English, I examine how words borrowed from different languages have influenced English throughout its history. The above feature summarizes some of the ...

Over the years, physicists have given names to the smallest constituents of our universe. This pantheon of particles has grown alongside progress in physics. Anointing a particle with a name is not ...

AS a writer, words are my stock-in-trade. I have written in English as well as in the vernacular. But ever since I encountered words like dalumat, matarling, kariktan, matimyas and all those ...