English has rules. Teachers insist on them. Exams depend on them. Grammar books list them carefully. And yet, English breaks its own rules all the time. Take pl ...

In 1913, three Nome legislators departed by dog sled in the second week of January to reach the inaugural session, which started nearly two months later in Juneau.

Word of the Day: Discombobulate reminds readers that English vocabulary is not only rich and precise but also capable of humour and creativity. Few words illustrate confusion quite as memorably, or as ...

Last week, a panel discussion on the future of the Indian Ocean drew attention in Sri Lanka for an unexpected reason. Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, Vijitha Herath, was among the participants in what ...

Maynard James Keenan reflects on the "endless barrage of madness and inhumane behavior" that inspired the new Puscifer album, ...

Buxton, Derbyshire: From those who planted them, to those who pruned them, to the pollinators and the mosses, it’s a long, collective endeavour As I prune one of our pears – a black Worcester, ...

The word “Valentine” comes from the Latin name Valentinus, meaning strong, healthy, or worthy. It is closely associated with Saint Valentine, a Christian martyr believed to have lived during the 3rd ...

Abstract: One of the main challenges in ontology matching is to match ontologies with high accuracy. Therefore, ontology matching systems typically use multiple basic matchers, each targeting a ...

A dictionary and stemmer for the Cebuano language spoken in the Philippines. Written in TypeScript, compiled to ES5 CommonJS module (for use in Node.js) and a single-file ES5 UMD module (for use in ...

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Words such as angry and peaceful. Words such as funny and serious. You can use a thesaurus to find synonyms and antonyms for words. Using the same words over and over in our writing can be a little ...