As St Patrick's Day approaches, many celebrate Irish culture, but did you know that our native language has influenced ...

“ [Cardiff University] has told students not to use colloquial phrases such as ‘kill two birds with one stone’ or ‘a piece of ...

Different words, different pronunciations, and different spellings have created two distinct separations in the English language: British English and American English. Words, phrases, and slang ...

English borrows a lot of words from different languages. Words include rendezvous, genre, and even lemon. English is more of ...

If you have a rhotic accent, you pronounce the /r/ sound whenever the letter 'r' appears in a word, like in 'learn', 'better' and 'perfect'. North American accents are usually rhotic, and other ...

We speak it, we read it, we write it … and we know doodle-squat about it. And more’s the pity when it comes to English, because I find its length and breadth fascinating. For one thing, if English ...

Last month was African American History month. On Feb. 21, Enterprise columnist Bob Seidenstein wrote about “Some words on words.” Time for some stories. In some mafia movies you hear “Send him to ...

Meghan Markle has revealed that her two young children pronounce some words the British way. The 43-year-old former actress ...