American English has become THE global language. And "words that shouldn't be" are everywhere. Americans invent more words and phrases in a month than other English speaking nations do in a year.

Explore how words are used in headlines: examine the word order, word classes, ambiguity and more. This clip is suitable for teaching English at Key Stage 3 or Third Level.

Learning a new language can be tricky, but how many words do you need to know before you can actually get by in a foreign tongue? That was the question posed to BBC Radio 4's More or Less ...

But some time over the 1100s it entered our language. Men say ‘the’ significantly more frequently than women. Now it’s used more than twice as much as any other English word We can’t ...

Many of us as children read, or had read to us, the book entitled: “Animal Farm” written by George Orwell. Time magazine ...

Each December, Oxford University Press (OUP)—the organization responsible for the Oxford English Dictionary—announces its ...

A slang term for supposed mental damage done by overconsumption of trivial online content triumphed over a shortlist that ...