Skip to content
Search

Latest Stories

english language

english language, american people, british people, linguistics, american expressions

A British woman in the U.S. shared some favorite sayings that have a surprising positivity.

Photo credit: Canva, Vitaly Gariev from Pexels (left, cropped) / Africa images (right, cropped)

Recent

Articles

Language Nerds Have Different Ideas About 2014’s Word of the Year

#BlackLivesMatter, vape, culture and exposure are 2014’s biggest words, according to dictionary writers and linguists.

Articles

Re:Words: A Video Lexicon Explores the Beauty of Language Through Youtube

A new crowdsourced video by the directors of "Words" explores the complexity of our language.

Articles

Yiddish, Schmiddish!

An ode to the wonderful "schm" sound-and many other Yiddish additions to our lexicon.n