A recent study has found a 50% decline in the use of semicolons over the last two decades. The decline accelerates a longterm trend: In 1781, British literature featured a semicolon roughly every 90 ...

“The Golden Bowl” is about two couples. One is made up of an Italian prince who marries an American woman named Maggie, the ...

The founder of the far-right English Defense League had his prison sentence for contempt of court reduced by the U.K.

The U.K. High Court in London on Tuesday reduced the prison sentence of the far-right English Defense League’s founder, and ...

Learn it here. Hello and welcome to The English We Speak, where we explain phrases used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them too. I'm Feifei, and I'm joined by Beth. 'It's giving ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

Your brain can detect sentence structure in just 125 milliseconds, showing how quickly we process written language when words ...

We’ve all been there. Sometimes, you’re just a little lonely and will stop at nothing to get your couch-potato pal to hang out with you. Bombarding your friend with kind words and general niceties ...

Outside of those 171,476 weird, wonderful words, you have idioms, which are phrases that can’t be fully understood based on the meanings of the individual words. American English idioms tend to be ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A friend of mine has been keeping in touch with me by sending text messages that contain one sentence only: “How are you, Jen?” He never shares anything about himself ...

Meaning: A Chinese proverb meaning that sometimes, it is worse to stop doing a dangerous thing than to continue doing it. Example: If I don’t take out a new loan, I won’t be able to make the ...

According to state news agency TAP, the sentences apply to eight individuals, with prison terms ranging from 18 to 36 years. The court did not name those convicted alongside Larayedh. Ennahdha ...