Rabbi Richard Hammerman of Caldwell, N.J., writes about my column of May 4, in which I said it was “pleasanter” to contemplate the origins of the expression “finger-lickin’ good” than it was to ...

Variations on adjectives, the words that describe things, may well reflect the competitiveness in the world. Or maybe they just add nuance. I haven't decided yet. Some examples of adjectives are free, ...

Babak Bagheri studying English in Canada writes: As you know, two-syllable adjectives ending in -y take the suffixes-ier and -iest for their comparitive and superlative forms. But what do you do when ...

Kim from South Korea writes: In a BBC article on a business news web page, a journalist wrote: "The emerging markets that investors can easily put money into seem a lot more risky than they did." ...