Robert McCrum is the literary editor of the Observer in London and the coauthor of "The Story of English." The English language, brought to the shores of Britain by an obscure Germanic tribe, the ...

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In a previous post, I remarked that the French philosopher Descartes was convinced only humans have souls in part because only we can use words to communicate with one another. His evidence? Even the ...