A friend of mine received a call from his colleague: “Sir, good morning. Sorry for disturbing you in the early morning. I have been suffering from fever since yesterday evening. I consulted a ...

Do you want to sound natural or artificial when you have an informal conversation? If you use formal language while chatting with someone face to face or online, you sound unnatural as formal language ...

The American Dialect Society selected a term that refers to the deterioration of online platforms. By Sam Corbin Sam Corbin reported this story in New York, from the American Dialect Society’s annual ...

The word ''homer'' was searched for nearly 75,000 times in May 2022 The Cambridge Dictionary has revealed its word of the year for 2022 as "homer", saying that it was inspired by the global word game ...

If Geoffrey Chaucer, hailed as the ‘father of English literature’ was to be alive again, he would not get what was being said in his own mother tongue. In December 2021, ‘floofy’ was one of the new ...

They found that just 2,000 words make up four fifths of the used language and that American culture, as well as online lingo, is altering the vernacular of the nation. “If there’s one generalisation ...

Cambridge Dictionary: The word “represented not only the enjoyment that so many of our users have found in being playful with language but also the challenges of learning English". The Cambridge ...

Born in Beijing, Lucia Lu came to Australia when she was three years old. Lucia admits that she is pretty comfortable speaking Mandarin as her every-day language even though it is not her first ...