I don’t remember when I first learned about single quotation marks, but I have a vague memory of assuming they were as useful as quotation marks, or close to it. Sometimes you quote someone. Sometimes ...

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The columnist-musician Sean of the South (aka Sean Dietrich) lived in Tallahassee for “a hot minute,” as he put it. The folksy future humorist had moved into an apartment and was ready to study at ...

Weather forecasters at the National Weather Service, The Weather Channel and this very news organization had a name for the kind of storm that upended daily life for residents of the Northeast US this ...

Google has apologized for publishing a news alert on the recent N-word outburst at the Bafta awards that outrageously included the slur. The post promoted an article about an audience member with ...

BBC producers overseeing coverage of the Bafta film awards say they did not hear a racial slur it mistakenly broadcast on BBC One, as the corporation apologised for ...

Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. The challenge last time was to come up with a term for “that last bit of dessert or food that people are too ...

After an attendee at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) who experiences involuntary verbal tics yelled out the n-word toward Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, many viewers were left with ...

Doing the work of an educator is tiring. Doing it right is even more tiring. A few months ago, I felt this degree of exhaustion before returning from winter break. It was the Friday before we were ...

Sinners production designer Hannah Beachler has criticized Alan Cumming’s on-stage apology after the N-word was shouted by a Tourette’s campaigner during the BAFTA Film Awards. Cumming briefly paused ...

“I’m right here nigger,” a voice screamed in the dark Lawrence High School parking lot. Nothing like a high school basketball game, in this case a quarterfinal showdown between top-seed Lawrence and ...