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Category: Word Stories

Word Stories

Word Stories: go

Steve Taylore-KnowlesMay 22, 2025

Here goes. I’m going to have a go at dealing with go, one of the commonest, and most complicated, verbs…

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Word Stories

nim

Steve Taylore-KnowlesMay 6, 2025May 6, 2025

In the mathematical realm of game theory, there is a simple game that has been analyzed and which is often…

Word Stories: orange
Word Stories

Word Stories: orange

Steve Taylore-KnowlesJanuary 19, 2025December 3, 2024

It’s been said that there are two words in English for which there are no perfect rhymes. One of them…

Word Stories: Easter
Word Stories

Word Stories: Easter

Steve Taylore-KnowlesSeptember 8, 2024July 12, 2024

In most European languages, the spring festival commemorating the resurrection of Christ is referred to by a name related to…

Word Stories: cuckoldry
Word Stories

Word Stories: cuckoldry

Steve Taylore-KnowlesJuly 25, 2024July 25, 2024

Thanks to the many people who expressed an interest in last month’s column on the verb be. A colleague asked…

Word Stories: be
Word Stories

Word Stories: be

Steve Taylore-KnowlesJuly 18, 2024July 25, 2024

Often, the longer and more unusual a word, the easier it is to trace its development. It can be broken…

Word Stories: nice
Word Stories

Word Stories: nice

Steve Taylore-KnowlesJune 4, 2024June 20, 2024

How does a word once full of negative connotations come to mean something positive? Take nice, for example. Nice is…

Word Stories: whom
Word Stories

Word Stories: whom

Steve Taylore-KnowlesApril 25, 2024June 27, 2024

Steve Taylore-Knowles looks at the stories behind the English language. ‘[T]he who/whom distinction is going the way of the phonograph…

Word Stories: silhouette
Word Stories

Word Stories: silhouette

Steve Taylore-KnowlesApril 24, 2024June 27, 2024

Eponyms, names for things derived from people’s names, are peppered throughout the English language, like a kind of social history…

Word Stories: tenere
Word Stories

Word Stories: tenere

Steve Taylore-KnowlesMarch 22, 2024June 27, 2024

Etymology works in two directions. You can take a word in modern English and work backwards to its roots, as…

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