“Are the hyphens in this sentence correct?” a colleague asked me recently: “The couple moved in to the beautiful 175-luxury apartment-home community just two weeks after it opened.” Hyphens are often ...

Some rumors are too hazy to be believed. For years, claims have connected the root of the word "alcohol" to an Arabic term that purportedly means "body-eating spirit." Many of these claims miss the ...

We’ve all done it – opened our mouth without thinking and blurted out something so incredibly insensitive and hurtful. It is the classic case of foot-in-mouth syndrome and honestly, it’s an epidemic ...

Some rumors are too hazy to be believed. For years, claims have connected the root of the word "alcohol" to an Arabic term that purportedly means "body-eating spirit." Many of these claims miss the ...

You already know how to eat, but do you know how to eat out, eat up, or eat into? In this English lesson, we explore ten common phrasal verbs using the word “eat” - most of which have nothing to do ...

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a lot of talk about the “generation gap.” The gap was understood to be a matter of culture and values, but the reality is that much of it was just about language ...