You’re in a business meeting. Is it bad manners to take out your phone to send or read a text? A new study suggests that how you feel about mid-meeting texting differs depending on your age and sex. Grant and Martha offer book recommendations...
Oorie-eyed, Ann’s family word for furiously angry, is real enough: it descends from Scots oorie, a word recorded since at least the 1700s. Earlier senses included dismal, sad, weak, sick, drooping, chilly, or cold, and later uses could refer to...