A study by the British Library revealed that despi...  ...not begun adopting the American pronunciation for English words. In fact, British English is changing at a faster rate than American English . Jonnie Robinson, one of the researchers, said:...  ...in some cases it...

Tired of your old dictionary?  Do you find the OE...  ...oking up your word in the OEDILF - the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form.  This is a crowdsou...  ...e limerick for every meaning of every word in the English language . Definitions are presented only in the five-line...

Literary theorist and columnist Stanley Fish h...  ...the five greatest sentences ever composed in the English language . Among them is this selection from John Bunyan's...  ...xperience, I cannot think of any craftsman of the English language greater than Vladimir Nabokov, who wrote as thoug...  ...nk is the g...

Pictured above is the longest word in the English language . It's a slang term for a disease incurred by inh...  ...011/01/21/133052745/whats-the-longest-word-in-the- english-language ? via Kottke

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG4UMxP3HsM] YouTube link. A recent post about a newscaster's gaffe prompted me to seek out this classic clip.  It was first posted on YouTube almost five years ago, but is wort...

Heather Carreiro of Matador Abroad suggests twenty...  ...eather Carreiro of Matador Abroad suggests twenty English language words that she thinks should return to common usa...

One of the weaknesses of the English language is that it presents no way to refer to person wit...  ...ory? Awareness of this problem is not new, and English Prof. Dennis Baron of the University of Illinois...  ...ity of Illinois has a lengthy post describing how English user...

Mark Peters explains that the word "dude" has evolved over time. In the 1800s, it referred to a dandy -- a person obsessed with proper dress and deportment. The following century, the meaning began to change: In the...

The Bodleian Library is publishing a new edition o...  ...Library is publishing a new edition of the first English language dictionary of slang, which has been out of print...  ...he polite London classes in ‘canting’ – the language of thieves and ruffians – should they be unluck...

Katherine Harmon writes in Scientific American tha...  ...stantial differences between how dyslexia impacts English and Chinese- language readers: English speakers who have developmental dyslexia usually...  ...e connecting them to their sounds. What about *strong cla...