We all have words and phrases that get under our skin. For me, I can’t stand the word ‘fluids.’ It paints a picture that I would rather not see. We often hear how the word ‘moist’ makes people feel ...

We are concluding our discussion on phrases, clauses and sentences today. In the last two classes, we compared the three, underlining how a sentence is usually a combination of clauses and phrases. We ...

University linguistics lecturers have picked out the most obscure phrases in the English language, looking at the origins of the sayings, how they came about and how they are used today. The study ...

Almost 1,500 years after it was first recorded, the English language has its one millionth word. At 10.22am yesterday Web 2.0 - describing the next generation of internet services -entered the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. All around the world, different countries and cultures have their own ways of speaking and acting, and many of the phrases that might ...

‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...