Oct 28: Plural and singular

Your Questions Answered: By FADZILAH AMIN

Oct 27: Jack and the beanstalk

Fun with puns.

Oct 27: Errors in PMR paper

From Lim.

Oct 21: Birthday thoughts

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED by FADZILAH AMIN

Oct 15: From Arabic

Dozens of English words, from admiral to zero, have Arabic origins.

Oct 14: Possessive forms

Your questions answered by FADZILAH AMIN

Oct 14: Summer’s top words

MAYBE the language lovers who looked up “refudiate” this summer wanted to refute or repudiate its existence as a real word.

Oct 13: Get a grip of this

SOME 10 years ago, I came to know about a book titled The Hand by Frank R Wilson in which the author posits that the human hand holds the key to the evolution of human intelligence.

Oct 13: The Char Koay Teow Man

By OH TEIK THEAM.

Oct 8: A place for words

Exploring situations where words fit or do not fit.

Oct 7: ‘Failing’ and ‘failure’

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED by FADZILAH AMIN

Oct 7: Spot the synonyms

Oct 1: British or American?

Malaysia favours British English but American English has a wider reach.

Oct 1: Overweight blues

DAVID did not mince his words when he recently told his best friend, Michael, that the latter had gained much weight.