Vocabulary

Middle English speakers certainly had a way with words. With dramatic flair and multicultural influe...

As we well know by now, slang moves fast. 2022’s terms? Dead and gone. In their place, a whole new a...

English can be a real pest, and even native speakers find themselves stumbling over some stubbornly ...

Whether it’s seeing majestic Mount Fuji from your window on a bullet train, eating your weight in Ka...

It’s not that hard to find a few weird words among the approximately 750,000 words that make up the ...

From a “doggy-dog world,” to nipping problems “in the butt,” these are the expressions you’re probab...

No matter how good your grammar is, if you don’t know any words that you can use it with, you (liter...

Rarely has a language been such a linguistic Frankenstein as English – it has stolen words from coun...

It’s a slightly bonkers challenge to try to identify the funniest words in English out of a vocabula...

Part of the magic of learning a new language lies in discovering peculiar and unique new words. No m...

If there’s one essential thing you need to get a firmer grasp on UK culture, it’s knowledge of the s...

English may have over 750,000 words, but it doesn’t always offer up the best words for a concept or ...