as opposed to the subject-verb-object order used in English. Nine other difficult languages are: Mandarin Chinese, which has thousands of characters, tonal pronunciation and no alphabetic script.

I like to think of myself as a logical person, but as I dig into the English language, I find that much of our language is nonsense. English is a ...

Does it bother anyone else that the word “subtle” has a silent “b?” Is it ironic that the word subtle means “understated?” The “b” in subtle is, therefore, itself, subtle.