Select a highlighted lyric to learn more. O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, Clague: Instead of being spelled “oh,” this is the vocative case. It’s the biggest typo that one ...

The vocative case also tends to disappear. If Poles want to refer to or call somebody, they most often just use the nominative: ‘Cześć, Michał!’ (Hello, Michał!), and not: ‘Cześć Michale!’ – as the ...

Like his almost contemporary, Terence Rattigan, he had a genius for exposing the rot beneath the surface of upper-class British society. He was, in fact, something of a clairvoyant, predicting the way ...