Tip of the Tongue

You can be as old as you look, feel, speak, and think.  You can also be as old as you remember geography. I happen (a matter of accide...

On my recent family visit in L.A, I encountered two words that tickled my fancy.  They were actually incredibly sounding of combinations o...

What a difference an ocean can make!  Ask the British and the Americans, who formally speak the same language.   Alas, the same is for Jud...

English and French, sharing many of the same roots and differing in their development, have many “false friends”, i.e. words that sound li...

Society can be differentiated by a variety of factors.  In Israel, by knowing what a person drinks, you can often guess their socio-econom...

As a legal translator, I am not intimidated by legal language, but I recognized that even most native speakers regard the language of Shak...

Visitors from Europe or North America travelling through Israel will see a remarkable number of similarities.  They will recognize many of...