It is not the typical topic that I would address in my writings, but I feel compelled to question Jamaicans’ obsession with the tense ‘would have’ in both their oral and written communication. Suffice ...

Food writer Russ Parsons, a regular contributor to this newspaper but still adjusting to Irish ways after moving here from California, was wondering on Twitter/X recently about one of our linguistic ...

Sir, – Further to Frank McNally’s Irishman’s Diary (March 8th), the conditional perfect tense is indeed often used in Ireland as a mock genteelism to avoid coming across too aggressively. I remember ...