Ubique means “everywhere” in Latin, so the verb ubiquit literally means “to become ubiquitous”—or in other words, to seem to appear everywhere. Ever needed the perfect word to describe a neighbor ...

I had never been a big fan of the letter "u." I tolerated it for years when I had a "q" in Scrabble and would hope and hope I would get a u to make a word. The rabid Scrabble player in me eventually ...

These are just some examples of words categorised as U and Non-U by the linguist Professor Alan Ross in 1954. U refers to upper class and Non-U refers to non-upper class. The U and Non-U list was ...