The French for “going-and-coming” was borrowed into English during the First World War to describe a to-ing and fro-ing, chopping-and-changing movement or pattern, or a bandying, back-and-forth ...

Become a yarn-chopper, even if people accuse you of being prone to yaw-yaw. | Phathn Sakdi Skul Phanthu/EyeEm/Getty Images To yaffle is to eat or drink messily, or to talk incoherently. It’s also ...

A three-decade-old manga symbol may seem an unlikely rallying cry for disaffected young people in 2025, but the “One Piece” pirate flag has been at the forefront of recent protests against government ...

Nils Mallock receives funding from UK International Development, in the UK government, as part of his affiliation with the XCEPT research program at King's College London. The views expressed do not ...