A wool sock might have an emotional value if it was the last thing grandmother knitted before her death. The same applies to words. A stranger's name has no emotional value, but if a loving ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From Mr Joe Darby. Sir, Worriers about apostrophes perhaps should retreat when words generally are losing ...

Individualistic values have been rising in China as the country has undergone rapid economic and social change, researchers report. The researchers chose 16 words that they determined represent a ...