Feifei Hello and welcome to The English We Speak, where we explain phrases used by fluent English speakers so that you can ...

When words fail them, creative writers imagine entirely new ones. Author Patti Callahan Henry examines fictional language, ...

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Maya Merhige recently completed a 14-hour swim across the 13.67-mile Cook Strait in New Zealand, battling through strong ...

Trump executive order: "Proficiency in English, which I designated as our official national language ... should be ...

Conclusion: In Chinese, it’s called fuqi fei pian. In this case, it’s fun to keep the original meaning in the translated name — husband-and-wife lung slices — but a description would be a nice menu ...

When a phrase has been misused into uselessness, maybe avoiding it is the best policy.

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Google's AI Overviews still have some problems, like suggesting that "You can't lick a badger twice" is a real saying.

A West Coast friend reports that her (white) teenage boys’ versions of assent are currently “peak,” “fire” and “facts.” On ...

“Jazz has absorbed whatever was around from the very beginning,” the writer Francis Davis told Wen Stephenson in a 1996 ...