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‘I love x’ is nothing but a verbal form of 'great' and is therefore suspect. What do we mean? Allow us to...

Every minute of every hour, armies of podcasters, gym bros, productivity hackers, body-image coaches,...

A friend recently had this phrase directed at him at the tail end of an interview with a company’s CEO:...

Why is everyone using a word that hardly means anything anymore to signify an increasing number of things?...

Time was, difficult material, complex topics, or just plain stubborn disciplines needed to be reviewed,...

Early on in a May 2022 FT Live presentation that would ultimately cost him his job, Stuart Kirk, then Global...

So far, we haven’t taken the originalist approach much. And yet, few will contest that it does pay to...

“Are those trivets?!?! That's a genius idea for kitchen wall art.” Pinterest,...

The central goal of these posts on LinkedIn – known as Notes on Language for Writers, or by the more cogent...

Once upon a time, back when fairytales were non-fiction, the word 'great' meant something. Sometimes,...

You could do worse than avoiding ‘such’, ‘so’ and similar seemingly superlative yet cruelly non-specific...

It’s not often that a word or phrase says one thing, yet means its opposite. Yeah, right. No, really, it’s...

It’s hard to feel sympathy for people who blithely refer to themselves as 'consumers' while bemoaning things...

I believe transparency should be less lofty premise and more steadily attainable goal, which is why I'm...