The British Council's World English Day campaign explores the origins of 100 popular English phrases, highlighting their ...

we’ve no shortage of weird and wonderful words and phrases to describe rain. Wellies aren't going to save you when it's raining upwards. A sudden, heavy, downpour that starts and ends suddenly ...

A number of Scottish idioms and phrases feature prominently in a British Council list that sheds light on the evolution of English. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman ...

French isn’t the only language that gave us English slang words with heavily borrowed parts. During my research for this episode, I found out that booze came from the middle Dutch verb būsen, which ...