Many years ago, back when I used to answer my landline telephone, I found myself in a conundrum. I realized that, when a caller asked, “May I speak to June, please?” I would answer, “This is she.” But ...

A member of Jose Carillo’s English Forum who goes by the username Sky made this request recently: “Please explain and give examples of the four nominative functions of nouns.” ...

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READERS new to Feedback may be unaware of our attempts over the years to expand humanity’s understanding of nominative determinism – the phenomenon, first identified in this column, in which people’s ...

IT HAS been done to death in New Scientist since the 1990s, which is why we often insist we will publish no new examples. Then more appear that are almost too good to be true, and we are back in the ...