21 English words you might not know came from other languages ©Shutterstock The English language is notoriously difficult to learn for those who don’t grow up speaking it at home.

This is from a YouGov survey from just a few years ago: nearly half of Americans say they believe in ghosts, and more than one-third say they have personally felt the presence of a ghost.

"Worcestershire, as in the sauce. The obvious pronunciation is 'wor-chest-er-shy-er,' but apparently the correct ...

The first word on our list that can’t be fully translated because it carries emotion behind it we don’t tend to pack into ...

OK is one of the most frequently used words in the English language, but does it have a Greek origin? There are numerous ...

There’s a word in the zeitgeist that illustrates the point, in fact – one that has been threatening the laissez-faire ...

"Words matter! Old habits can be hard to break and we're happy to serve as a resource for the court of public opinion on what should continue to be part of the English language and what needs to ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...