Word of the Day: Over 2 million English words exist, yet “sartorial meaning” is trending in Google search this year. Readers want clear answers. Sartorial means related to clothing, tailoring, and ...

Once violently defended from extinction, Welsh is still a part of daily life. By learning my family’s language, I hoped to join their conversation ...

I have been telling the story of the local girls who were amongst the 60,000 or so British women who married American and Canadian military personnel (known as G.I.s) who were stationed in the UK from ...

It doesn't take the luck o' the Irish to figure out which nickname is right—just ask this linguist ...

Today, March 4, is National Grammar Day: an occasion, the NGD website tells us, to “celebrate good grammar in both our written and spoken communication.” Since I am a linguist and get my quotidian ...

Creators of the world’s most trusted dictionaries, Oxford University Press, have been busy updating their children’s dictionaries and thesauruses, and the brand new books – for both early and middle ...

Metro Council was about an hour into a work session on Tuesday when the conversation took an unexpected turn. Councilor Juan Carlos González, the first Latino person elected to Metro Council, had been ...

Practise by using the worksheet on this page. The clip we heard came from an episode of Job Applications - discover the series. Do you want to learn about connected speech? Try Tim's Pronunciation ...

A somnambulist is a person who walks or performs actions while asleep, a phenomenon commonly known as sleepwalking. This term, derived from Latin roots for "sleep" and "to walk," describes a ...

In fact, any letter representing a vowel sound can be pronounced as schwa. For example, the first vowel in the word 'connect' is a schwa sound but it's written with the letter 'o', and the second ...

That’s the challenge facing Amanda Seyfried in The Testament of Ann Lee: portraying a working-class Mancunian accent from ...