Most people learned this popular nursery rhyme as children: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall/Humpty Dumpty had a great fall/All the king’s horses and all the king’s men/Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

Humpty Dumpty famously told Alice that for him a word “means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” He would have been at home with the Supreme Court’s recent 6-3 decision upholding ...

Language has come a cropper. Humpty Dumpty blithely says, “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to.”. Today Humptyism has come alive. Just think of words in today’s vocabulary like freedom ...

Learn new high-frequency words and look for rhyming patterns. Do some word building and learn two new high-frequency words. We will also look for rhyming patterns as we read a nursery rhyme. Do some ...

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday (February 1) took a dig at the Union Budget using a nursery rhyme. Banerjee called it a ‘Humpty Dumpty budget’, accusing the Centre of not ...

We all know what a portmanteau is now. A word formed from the combination of two other words, smashed together. Examples might include 'British exit' as Brexit, 'smog' from smoke and fog, Biscoff – a ...

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so ...

If you read the papers, watch television, or spend time online, you know that the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") has its hands full these days. There are rumors and reports of lots of SEC ...

It is a pity stockbrokers do not take the advice of the March Hare, who told Alice "... you should say what you mean". I always thought buy, hold and sell recommendations by brokers left one with a ...