The idea for “Exploding the Word” came from a single moment I witnessed between two of my students improvising a scene before an invited audience in my “Improv and Games for the Stage” class. The ...

After U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted a massive operation at Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in 2006 and ...

When she’s not at one of her two food service jobs, his wife, Sherlie, works on her English by reading paperback ... pointing to a phrase exempting people who have “otherwise obtained a ...

It seems to be nothing more than a catch-all phrase for anything someone ... novel “1984” — also wrote a brilliant essay, “Politics and the English Language.” In it, he discusses how ...

Foreign travelers visiting China will inevitably encounter amusing translations on English restaurant menus during their ...

Human essays use over three times more engagement techniques than ChatGPT, including personal asides, rhetorical questions, ...

Soon the guy I had met and I were seeing each other regularly, tilting between what I would call a relationship in Spanish and what some English speakers ... full of phrases like “ese manto ...

What we say to others requires thoughtfulness and consideration to make certain that the recipient doesn't feel as if we are ...

Somehow, I’ve long known what that now widely misused phrase actually means, probably thanks to being taught high school English in St. Louis by William A. Bascom. He approached the language ...

Some phrases can shatter your child's childhood, as they have the power to damage their self-esteem and self-love. Avoid ...

A number of Scottish idioms and phrases feature prominently in a British Council list that sheds light on the evolution of English. Launched to coincide with World English Day, Phrase-ology highlights ...