How and why do words from one language find their way into another? Vietnamese, for instance, includes many words borrowed or adapted from French, a vestige of colonialism. For example, the Vietnamese word for “train station,” ga, comes from French...
A seven-letter word riddle asks what becomes longer when its third letter disappears. The trick depends on treating the word both as something with a meaning and as a string of characters, with a pun waiting at the end. This is part of a complete...
