The next time you’re googling how to correctly pronounce potable, cache, macabre or gnocchi, or gauging whether the U is silent in gauge, you can be assured of two things. You’re not the only one wary ...

Inhabited by a succession of Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Scandinavians and Normans, Britain has spent centuries simmering into a confusing toponymic soup of counties, cities and castles. Over time, ...

OK, gather around, kids, it’s story time. Once upon a time, I went to a party with my best friend, whom, for her own protection, I will call “Annie.” It was our first semester in college, and it was ...