About half of U.S. adults (51%) say it is extremely or very important for the U.S. to make English its official language.

Some common words we use every day, including the name of one of the UK's main political parties, have a surprising origin in ...

Across its nearly 250-year history, the United States has never had an official language until now. But Americans will not ...

When my maternal grandfather, Israel Whitman, came here from Czarist Russia, he wouldn’t allow Yiddish to be spoken in his ...

Everything about the island is local and it is one of the few places in America where there are no hotel chains, no Starbucks ...

We don't always agree with people at work. But we still need to get the job done. In this episode of Office English, Pippa and Phil talk about how to stay polite and professional at work when conflict ...

Although authorities consider Joshua Riibe a “person of interest” in the case, he has not been charged or formally accused of ...

Immigrants don’t need an executive order to want to learn English. The incentives to learn the language are already ...

In a viral TikTok, an American woman shares her unexpected love story after fleeing to the English countryside to clear her mind. The man she found love with her Airbnb host's son.

Readers disagree. One says it will finally encourage people coming from other countries to learn English, while another says ...

The Mayor of Dudley Hilary Bills has called for people across the borough to keep on supporting their local attractions ahead ...

Today, about 1.5 billion people speak English. Only about 400 million of those speak it as their first language. It is the ...