Kazzazi explained that his companion Saeid Sabzian selected and compiled English literary words and found the best Persian synonyms for them, the Persian service of ISNA reported. “I was then ...

WHEN the plan of the “Encyclopædia Biblica” was first announced several years ago, the most favourable anticipations were formed with regard to the new project by all advocates of a moderate and ...

SYED Muhammad Mirza Muhazzab Lakhnavi is not a much known figure in Urdu’s literary and academic world. So is his 14-volume Urdu-Urdu dictionary, which he compiled single-handedly over a period of ...

Chekhov once wrote that you need to be a god to distinguish success from failure in life without making a mistake. While none of the 52 writers in C.D. Rose’s mischievous book “The Biographical ...

In Tobias Wolff’s 2003 novel Old School, a group of arrogant literature students criticise Robert Frost, who is visiting their school to talk about poetry. One sums up his issues with Frost by saying: ...

Concerns over climate change and financial matters have become sufficiently widespread to take words and phrases associated with them into the latest edition of a major dictionary. 25 August 2011 • ...

THIS work, now completed, contains, as the publishers inform us, about as much printed matter as twelve volumes of the “Dictionary of National Biography.” They have also published a thin-paper edition ...