In Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There Humpty Dumpty declares to Alice: "When I use a word...it means just what I chose it to mean--- neither more nor less." When Amy Chua uses a word ...

Most, if not all of us, will be familiar with the classic nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty - you know, the one about the uncoordinated egg who falls off the wall. Highly relatable. But where in the rhyme's ...

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so ...

We can recite them all: “Humpty Dumpty,” “Jack and Jill,” “Old King Cole,” “Little Miss Muffet,” etc. Yes, nursery rhymes. Even though we know the words to hundreds of them, we are unaware of their ...

Every now and again, somebody will pose a seemingly simple observation that ends up throwing something we all took for granted into endless doubt. Take this as an example: for hundreds of years, we ...

Those of us who have had the misfortune to live through the last 40 years of political turmoil in Quebec know, only too well, that the word “rights,” when applied to Quebec’s English-speaking ...