Many people use simple English words every day, but many of them use these words in the wrong way. This happens because these ...

Commonly Confused Words: Have you ever used the word access where you should have used excess? Or Have you got confused about which to use-affect or effect? Well, don’t worry as this is not unusual.

This video teaches twenty popular American slang words that you’ll hear in everyday conversations. Each term is explained in ...

It all started when I couldn’t remember if an apéritif was a before-dinner or after-dinner drink. (Correction: I said it was a before-dinner drink—the “per” in apéritif being reminiscent of the prefix ...

It's hard to keep up with all the slang that people use these days. Thanks to social media, there are so many different examples. To some, these shortened words or jumbles of letters might appear ...

Now's a good time — if you have the bandwidth — to touch base about a pain point that's evidently bothering many white-collar workers: office jargon. The business buzzwords (or corporate cliches, if ...

Some of the 21st century's newest English words, including "rizz," "dad bod," and "photobomb," have been added to the latest edition of a well-known dictionary. Merriam-Webster, a leading American ...

We know that words change all the time and over time, a process language experts describe as “semantic shift,” semantics being the field of language concerned with meaning. Even if we may not ...