An American woman’s hilarious take on “Indian English” has gone viral on social media. In a video, she explained unique words ...
Henry W Fowler, author of Modern English Usage (1926), and Wilson Follett, author of Modern American Usage (1966), both included “barbarisms” as headwords in their guides. Fowler defined them as ...
“Fall” is not a term that independently sprung up in American English, it was actually born in the UK. Merriam-Webster writes ...
Before attempting to chronicle what well may have been the most difficult to swallow of 63 West Virginia losses in the ...
Language is constantly evolving to accommodate how we live and work. After all, pretty much every profession uses dozens of ...
When I need to picture possible winning words, I utilize Xs to spell out the correct letters I know so far. So far, the ...
An old video resurfaced earlier this summer in which Vice President Kamala Harris was asked, "What's Your Favorite Curse Word ...
In an election year, the Yiddish word 'schlub' provides a handy, if somewhat gendered, way to separate the competent from the ...
Social media users say people shouldn't say 'good morning' because it has roots in the slave trade, but historians and ...
Speakers of English are adept at creating new terms by stringing together parts of other words. This is often accomplished by ...
Our family has just returned from a three-week sojourn in Great Britain, so I’ve got a bit of reality whiplash. One day I ...
Before attempting to chronicle what well may have been the most difficult to swallow of 63 West Virginia losses in the ...