He “gets so annoyed reading … magnum opus letters … these people know who they are.” Well that’s easy. Nobody makes him read them. Just skip over annoying letters that others want to read. It’s safe ...

A centerpiece of the study of linguistics has been that the words we use are arbitrarily related to the concepts they refer to. To some degree, this is true. If you look across languages, the same ...

Parsnip. Magnanimous. Sepulcher. This could be the beginning of a particularly esoteric New York Times Connections puzzle, but it is also how I chose to begin this week’s column. By selecting and ...