But in higher grades, our English teachers used to tell us that we had to learn the spellings and meanings of new words to expand our vocabulary so that our command over the English language—both our ...

In the college classroom, it’s all too easy to talk at the students for 90 minutes – to just be a professor with a slide deck who tosses in a few canned jokes that you know work because you’ve already ...

I pushed a chatbot through several millennia of linguistic evolution. An AI from the year 5000 lectured me about pronouns.

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Have you ever come across a word that has stuck in your mind for no apparent reason? It could be a word that was used in a book, newspaper article or uttered by someone. For some unexplained reason, ...

Ben Yagoda, an American author and retired professor of English, started writing a blog in 2011 that examined what he called "Not One-Off Britishisms," or NOOBS: examples of British words and usages ...

One of the first tasks I undertook in South Korea was proofreading English versions of speeches by Korean business leaders. Many of these speeches frequently included four-character phrases that were ...

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If a recent report from the Daily Mail is believed to be true, Chelsea received a boost in pursuit of their long-term ...

Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to liberate India completely from the Macaulayite mindset. In his words: ...

Inside Dame Anne Salmond journey, a trailblazing anthropologist balancing family, fieldwork, and groundbreaking academic work ...

The little bit of growing room Eulea Knowles Kiraly set out to put between herself and her small hometown when she left for college grew to 9,000 miles, covering a meandering path through theater, ...