Snow phrases stick because they do two jobs at once. They describe something physical (cold, bright, heavy, blinding) and ...

As a professor and the editor of an academic journal, I read with pleasure William Germano’s clever reflection on the many ways we read (The Review, April 19). I smiled repeatedly as I saw myself in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The claim that Eskimo languages have many words for different types of snow is well known among the public, but it has been greatly exaggerated and is therefore often dismissed by scholars of language ...

across the Canadian far north, and up to the coast of Greenland. While the term Inuit is preferred to Eskimo by many in Canada, the term is retained here because (a) it properly refers to any Eskimo ...