All nouns in Spanish have a gender. They are either masculine or they are feminine. Every noun is either one or the other and you just have to learn them. But there are some clues. Un problema is a ...

The holiday card season is about to start. Now's a good time for an apostrophe refresher, according to grammar expert June ...

Linguists have long believed that the sound of a word reveals nothing about its meaning, with a few exceptions of words like “buzz” or “beep” that are known as onomatopoeia. But a new study analyzing ...

The views of the physicist Niels Bohr on language have a lot to answer for, not least David Peat’s article about the language of physics (5 January, p 42). If European languages really consisted only ...