How many times have you used these sayings recently? 'Know your onions', 'I've dropped a clanger', 'keen as mustard', 'knickers in a twist' and 'dead as a doornail'. Well, according to a new study, ...

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It may be codswallop, but a poll has found some old sayings look dead as a doornail. And, apparently, the most endangered is one from the Bible, “pearls before swine”. If you are as baffled by that as ...

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Language, as I’ve always said, is quite a peculiar phenomenon to every people. And this peculiarity reflects in the modality of thoughts and perceptions into which the language moulds and weaves the ...

English tourists visiting the former colonies will no longer have to mind the gap between the two languages. More and more, Americans are adopting Britishisms in their daily life - taking foreign ...

Elderly Britons bemoaned the loss of traditional English phrases as a "great shame". This comes as new research has identified the top 50 phrases most at risk of dying out in the English language.

“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instil a love of learning,” a famous quote by an American politician, Brad Henry summarizes everything about the guiding force of our ...