For the next few months, Wordplay will feature guest columnists on certain days.

There are handy magnets from at least three veterinarians, two of whom now work for large private equity firms, because every doctor and tradesman except clock repair has lately been bought out by ...

In the mid 1970s, PM Konstantinos Karamanlis proposed Latinizing Greek letters and making the Greek language phonetic.

The first alphabetic writing system was created in the Levant and Sinai Peninsula sometime in the second millennium B.C., probably between 1850 and 1700 B.C., by adapting Egyptian hieroglyphs—a ...