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Category: Word Stories

Sycophant
Word Stories

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ELT NewsSeptember 18, 2025September 18, 2025

My e-mailbag this month contains a complaint from Yiannis Iliopoulos of Kozani, who berates me in most polite terms for…

Word Stories: handsome
Word Stories

Word Stories: handsome

Steve Taylore-KnowlesAugust 6, 2025September 18, 2025

Those of us who are not cut out to be supermodels may well agree with the old English proverb that…

Word Stories: okay
Word Stories

Word Stories: okay

Steve Taylore-KnowlesJuly 25, 2025September 18, 2025

While planning a new product in 1994, the Coca-Cola company found that Coca-Cola was the second most recognisable term across…

Word Stories: ye
Word Stories

Word Stories: ye

Steve Taylore-KnowlesJuly 3, 2025September 18, 2025

You don’t have to go far in England, particularly in the south, to find somewhere selling over-priced tea and scones…

Word Stories: go
Word Stories

Word Stories: go

Steve Taylore-KnowlesMay 22, 2025September 18, 2025

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

nim
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…

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