When it comes to choosing a baby name, sometimes it's easiest to start by narrowing it down to all the options under just one ...

The English language is full of oddities, but some words sound so absurd you’d swear someone made them up after one too many pints. However, they’re real, many with histories stretching back centuries ...

Does your surname link you to royalty – or does it mark out your ancestors as fools, philanderers – or just plain ugly?

New memoirs from Margaret Atwood and Arundhati Roy, buzzy fiction by Mona Awad and more notable reads this season ...

CAMPAIGNERS have launched a bid to overturn the ban on Palestine Action through the Scottish courts – a move they have said could trigger ...

Brian Gorman was born in Wishaw in 1951, the son of Cornelius, a baker, and Winifred, a housewife. He had two brothers, Jim ...

How do you pronounce words that begin with lots of consonants? What is a consonant cluster? It's a word that has multiple consonant sounds together. Look at the consonants at the starts of these words ...