Georgina Sebar's article ("Missing middle changes can be positive", June 15) shows how the missing middle changes can be positive. However, it depends on "good developers".

Though evidence of bikini-style bralettes can be found as early as Ancient Rome—there are mosaics in the Sicilian Villa Romana del Casale depicting women exercising in two-piece garments dating back ...

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This article was produced for the Observatory by the Independent Media Institute. Danica Tomber is an applied linguist with a master of arts in teaching English to speakers of other languages from ...

Alice Franklin's new novel is a story told by an often-lonely little girl in the south of England who doesn't seem to see the world or hear its sounds or speak and think in the way other children do.

Analysis: we've gone from 1970s and 1980s ads spoken in 'posh' Received Pronunciation to today's Advanced Dublin English By Joan O'Sullivan, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick When you listen to an ad ...

This week I learned that pretty much everyone who’s ever opined about the word “peruse” was wrong, kind of. And the people who corrected the people who opined wrongly were also wrong, kind of. And ...

Translation and interpreting (T&I) are forms of communication because their primary function is to bridge communication for people separated by language barriers. T&I are special forms of ...

Still hesitating to use literally in a figurative capacity? Perhaps it will ease your mind to know that plenty of famous authors have done it in their most beloved works. Here is just a handful of ...

"He always gives 110 per cent", a commentator says of a sportsman on the radio. I find myself shouting at the speaker. "100 per cent!" I grumble. "It's mathematically impossible to go higher!" Why am ...