The addition of cloud, paywall and tweet to The Chambers English Dictionary suggests that lexicographers are keeping up with the times. Or are they? How, in this world of  increasing miniaturisation, do they get away with their abuse of the adjective “pocket”? In the 15th century, a “poket” [sic] in Anglo-Norman usage was “a little [...]

I got back from a holiday last week to the usual blizzard of emails. Among them was one from a woman in PR acting for a luxury resort in Asia. She had recently arranged a stay at the resort for a ballerina, she said, and the ballerina was now keen to write a travel article [...]