On the one hand, I love the occasional use of a well-balanced, stretchable word in a text message; stretched words make written and spoken language more emotive (e.g., "From Hollywooood, heeerrrre ...

My 12-year-old daughter looovvveeesss to stretch out spoken and written words by adding extra letters. When I read about a new study (Gray, Danforth, & Dodds, 2020) that analyzed the use of ...

Fight against Franglais! French language website creates list of English words it wants to ban. By LEE MORAN Updated: 12:29 EDT, 12 October 2011 . 140. View comments.

In Higher English revise language techniques such as figures of speech, sentence structure, tone and word choice, which are used to convey meaning.

In National 4 English revise language techniques used to convey meaning effectively such as figures of speech, sentence structure, tone and word choice.

"Go" is one of the most ubiquitous everyday words in the English language. Like many others on this list, it can be a noun, adjective, and verb. It clocked in at 368 definitions in 1989's O.E.D.

Pimp. Surely this word’s transformation is one of the strangest in the English language (which is saying a lot). According to Merriam-Webster, men who exploit prostitutes have been called ...

It may not be the most glamorous or fashionable word in the English language, but it represents an image of comfort and of home and hearth. In its diminutive form it is often the first and ...