In recent years, Jack Grieve of the department of English and linguistics at the University of Birmingham in England has embraced Twitter as a bountiful lode for looking at language-use patterns.

The tendency of the petrostate is to recentralize, petrify and personalize power, said Margarita López Maya, a political scientist who long supported Chávez but is now disillusioned.

The Icenian King Prasutagus died after a long a prosperous reign of at least thirteen years. On his death, he left behind two daughters and a wife whose influence would be felt for the next two thousand years: her name was Boudica, queen of the Iceni.

Fool: Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a gentleman or a yeoman?