Month: September 2010

There’s a line in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” in which George, the host, asks his wife Martha to show […]

Trying to catch a few winks after a particularly long, bumpy flight from Copenhagen to Minneapolis, on an airport bench […]

Readers of this column may recall treatises on single words and short phrases. Over the years, I’ve tackled individual words […]

Last week’s column on the use of “tú” and “usted” taught me a word that I would have thought of […]

Here’s a brief primer on one important difference between English and Spanish. Somewhere along the linguistic ladder, people stopped using […]