You know 'ice' – you put it in drinks to make them cold, you can skate on it and there's a lot of it in the Arctic! There are ...

As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky ...

Trucker drivers' lack of bilingual skills needs to change in a hurry, as the Trump administration steps up enforcement of an ...

As the government is exploring a new EU youth mobility scheme and working towards a renewed association with the Erasmus+ ...

The parents of your child’s spouse. Your child’s in-laws. OK, this is a Yiddish word, but one that, like a lot of Yiddish words, has poked its way into English because it fills a gap.

All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to something higher.” ...

Choosing which past tense to use in English can be very tricky. In the dialogue Claire and Allan use two different past ...

Truckers who learned English as a second language are concerned they may lose their jobs if they make a mistake or speak with ...