By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Several months ago, a couple of people drew my attention to a Facebook status upd...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @ farooqkperogi As faithful readers of this column know, I have a scholarly fascination with th...

As all linguists know, English owes way more debt to Arabic than borrowing just 15 words from it. Most of the English vocabulary in astron...

I rarely publish reactions to articles in my grammar column except in the Q and A series. I am breaking that tradition this week for two r...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi I have always been fascinated by Yoruba people’s creative morphological domestica...