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A lament for the zippy zeros that never were

The demise of handwriting

A simple matter of pride

Rediscovering lost tongues

Rolodex attachments

Windows have history!

English reaches a milestone

Ruth Walker writes: A question from a colleague the other day set my wheels turning, and they rolled me into a place I didn't expect to go

Ruth Walker writes: A reader writes in to complain that he is having, well, a reaction to the use of the word "radical".

Ruth Walker writes: I would have guessed from the sound symbolism, though, that ‘coruscating' involves using some dreadful chemical to clear barnacles from a ship

Ruth Walker writes: Who knew that the update of a dictionary would make headlines around the world?

Ruth Walker writes: That we use these words every day doesn't mean we use them correctly, of course