Language has come a cropper. Humpty Dumpty blithely says, “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to.”. Today Humptyism has come alive. Just think of words in today’s vocabulary like freedom ...

Humpty Dumpty famously told Alice that for him a word “means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” He would have been at home with the Supreme Court’s recent 6-3 decision upholding ...

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday (February 1) took a dig at the Union Budget using a nursery rhyme. Banerjee called it a ‘Humpty Dumpty budget’, accusing the Centre of not ...

If you read the papers, watch television, or spend time online, you know that the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") has its hands full these days. There are rumors and reports of lots of SEC ...

"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 all know what a portmanteau is now. A word formed from the combination of two other words, smashed together. Examples might include 'British exit' as Brexit, 'smog' from smoke and fog, Biscoff – a ...

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 ...

It is a pity stockbrokers do not take the advice of the March Hare, who told Alice "... you should say what you mean". I always thought buy, hold and sell recommendations by brokers left one with a ...

Having lived "powerless" much or all of my life, the idea that President Barack Obama ("Obama considers court pick," LJS, May 24) wished to appoint "someone whose brand of justice includes seeing life ...