Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I recently sat down with the outgoing Irish climate minister, Eamon Ryan, in a quiet corner of the European ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’m beginning to despise the use of acronyms at my work. We live in a society that has evolved into a culture of getting things done at an ultrafast pace. Even in something as ...

16:54, Thu, Jan 30, 2025 Updated: 16:59, Thu, Jan 30, 2025 The saying, 'Every day is a school day' couldn't be more true when it comes to the vast and complex English language. With approximately ...

PARIS—In France, many people encounter their first acronym at birth in a CHU, the French initials for a university hospital center. The acronyms pile up in elementary school, where first through fifth ...

At first it was the scientists and engineers who cut words down to size, which made sense because no one could understand the language anyway. However, slowly but surely politicians started to use ...

Every day is a school day as they say - especially when it comes to mastering the English language. In fact, the Oxford English Dictionary estimates that there are around 170,000 words currently in ...

I recently sat down with the outgoing Irish climate minister, Eamon Ryan, in a quiet corner of the European Council building in Brussels. The first thing he wanted to talk about was not the latest ...