'False friends' are words in one language that look like words in another language, but which have very different meanings. There are a number of false friends in German, where the words look ...

The accentuation of compound nouns that are formed by combining two elements (first- and last-part) shows a certain patterns by the last-part element. The dictionary’s appendix at the end of the book ...

I and several readers were communicating recently about the practice of putting “I,” “me” or “my” first in a compound-noun phrase. In fact, two back-to-back emails posed the same question: Isn’t it ...

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