Wes Phillips

The Royal Academy of Art has been displaying David Hensel's One Day Closer to Paradise at its summer exhibition. There's just one problem. Apparently they've lost it and have been displaying the empty plinth instead. Here's the kicker: Nobody noticed until the sculptor visited the exhibition.

I grew up in the South and I cannot pronounce "pen" and "pin" so they are distinguishable. I showed Ms Ph.D. in Linguistics this article and said, "See, my dialect isn't weird after all."

Here's the answer to last week's "I Think the Universal translator Is Broken" puzzle. Except for the huh? part, that is.

Learn the Northern Jersey dialect of Italian. Think The Sopranos. Racy language alert—or is that redundant after mentioning Tony's gang?

Yeah, it looks cute, but Huckleberry is making his move to take over the whole thing. When he has annoyed Bagheera enough, she'll leave in a huff—or else haul off and smack him. Since he's always up for a ruckus, there's no downside.

You think you have big ears?

Add this to the ever growing list of stuff I didn't know.