The English Nut

Shashi Tharoor is back for the 300th episode of The English Nut!

Narcissist, Intrepid, Pugnacious, Hullabaloo—Words to Welcome 2025

'Very' is a very lazy word. Replace it!

Breath: My Personal Word of the Year 2024 HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Words of the Year 2024: brain rot, demure, kakistocracy, manifest, brat, enshittification

Furtive, Inveigh, Ponderous and Henpeck—Words with Character!

4 Ps of English: Palimpsest, Pirouette, Perspicacity, Pasture

The A-Z of The English Nut

You DON’T need to count calories but… #weightloss #health #plantbased

Simple tips to speak and write better English. (2020)

For Poetry Lovers: Exploring Indian English Poetry

Speak better English with fewer words!

7 commonly mispronounced words: asthma, pigeon, jalapeño, Leicester, salmon, cupboard, dessert

Use plain English, not jargon!

Noble titles of address in English: Your Majesty, Your Highness, Your Grace…

English can be funny--by mistake! :D

Ruskin Bond in conversation with The English Nut!

Use these 5 Powerful Words: Preposterous, Conflate, Prevarication, Gleam, Euphoria.

English Words We Didn’t Know We Needed: Epicaricacy, Sobriquet, Pernoctation, Psithurism

A conversation about English with SHASHI THAROOR. [2020]

5 Intriguing Words: Pandora's Box, Sinecure, Acquiescence, Kafkaesque and Eudaemonist

4 critical English words: acrimony, obfuscate, defenestrate, shambolic

Chocolatey English--a sinfully delightful language.

Funny-sounding English words: Flibbertigibbet, Lugubrious, Hooray Henry, Lalochezia