The professor’s erudite lectures drew students from every department. The author’s erudite prose can be challenging but deeply rewarding. The book club quickly turned into an erudite debate about the ...

My call for commonly mispronounced words and phrases has generated a response that has gone far beyond my initial request. I’m still hearing about women being called “guys” and several somewhat ...

What is the meaning and origin of ‘to eat crow’? (Krishna Kumar, Thiruvananthapuram) This American expression is mostly used in informal contexts to mean ‘to be humiliated’. When you are made to eat ...

Time’s they are a changing. Language too. And if you don’t want to get pegged as someone with an old person’s vocabulary, you need to keep up with it all. This week, Dictionary.com rolled out hundreds ...

Language has a unique way of capturing human qualities in a single word, and erudite is one such term. Quite often, it is employed as a descriptor for a personality endowed with a certain depth and ...

Each week The Sun’s John McIntyre presents a relatively obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar, another brick to add to the wall of your vocabulary. This week’s word: If you ...