Are you as good as your word?

Take some proverbial advice – or not As a sage once said, actions speak louder than words. On the other hand, the pen is mightier than the sword. For project work, remember this: many hands make light work. Also this: too many cooks spoil the broth. Looking for words...

How did a flock of birds help to spark an information empire? A few days ago marked the 202nd anniversary of the birth of one of the world’s media giants: Israel Beer Josaphat. He’s better known as Paul Julius Reuter, the name he adopted upon moving to London in 1845....

There’s no evidence that he actually said the following. But Winston Churchill is often credited with this response to criticism that he ended sentences with a preposition. “This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I shall not put.” Though the story is...