Expanding your vocabulary can help you get the right reaction from people—if you do it right. Plus 20 big words and how to ...

The English language is full of words that ... Like a punchy use of onomatopoeia—a technique where a word mimics a sound—in a comic book, this one speaks for itself. Between the eight vowels ...

And he went back to Ireland and wrote something like 100,000 words. But, he said ... On this week's Big Books and Bold Ideas, Barry joins Miller to talk about the entwined histories of America ...

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English typically uses a strict SUBJECT VERB OBJECT (SVO) word order in simple sentences, as in Students (S) read (V) books (O). This SVO word order becomes altered in many other English sentence ...

For eight hours a day, five days a week, every week until the heat death of the universe or the day human beings stop ...

It’s the very heart (or hub) of something. Why do we keep misspelling these words? Find out what spelling can reveal about the evolution of English. Five words that have changed their meaning ...

Ten Welsh words have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The OED is a big historical database, which contains more than 500,000 words, phrases and their meanings, from over 1000 ...

In 1896, he earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University, where he would be an English professor ... Strunk’s book “contained three main concepts: omit needless words, use active voice, and use ...

How were the Big Five traits determined? Created with Sketch. Analyzing English words used to describe personality traits, researchers used statistical techniques to identify clusters of related ...

As the "science of reading" movement has spread, predictable texts for beginning readers have come under fire.

For the record, the OED cites the use of "sef" by author Ben Okri in his 1980 book Flowers and Shadows. But in accepting Nigerian words, along with past inclusions from the rest of the English ...