Language has come a cropper. Humpty Dumpty blithely says, “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to.”. Today Humptyism has come alive. Just think of words in today’s vocabulary like freedom ...

Humpty Dumpty famously told Alice that for him a word “means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” He would have been at home with the Supreme Court’s recent 6-3 decision upholding ...

The BBC was yesterday accused of 'outrageous' political correctness after changing the words to a nursery rhyme on a children's show. CBeebies programme Something Special altered the words to Humpty ...

We all know what a portmanteau is now. A word formed from the combination of two other words, smashed together. Examples might include 'British exit' as Brexit, 'smog' from smoke and fog, Biscoff – a ...

Those of us who have had the misfortune to live through the last 40 years of political turmoil in Quebec know, only too well, that the word “rights,” when applied to Quebec’s English-speaking ...

Having lived "powerless" much or all of my life, the idea that President Barack Obama ("Obama considers court pick," LJS, May 24) wished to appoint "someone whose brand of justice includes seeing life ...