My Mac needs a new logic board. Is that the same as the motherboard, and why is it so expensive?
Category Archive: Language
Is it incorrect to refer to ‘a slither of lemon’?
Even the most radical change-monger and early-adopter also seeks comfort and their security blanket at times.
Two current cases show how messy copyright can become: it is not a Happy Birthday for Harry Potter.
Proving the date of origin of anything electronic – for patent or copyright purposes, perhaps – has been well nigh impossible. But that has now changed.
What OS X and browser support is there for Scottish Gaelic and other Celtic tongues?
Are there any cheap or free tools that might help me translate a large collection of French stories into English?
Zipf’s law seems very deeply embedded in language, and pervades many utterly non-linguistic data. We still do not understand why.
For reasons known only to Microsoft, Word will never tell you that your document is too tough for a 17 year-old to read.
Like so many of David Crystal’s books, “Words in Time and Place” is seriously addictive, and essential for anyone with the slightest interest in the English language.
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