Of 10,000 U.K. teachers surveyed, 50% reported hearing their students say "trash" or "garbage" instead of the more typical ...

Want to understand real American English? In this video, you’ll learn 20 slang words Americans use every day — from hang out ...

“The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language.” So goes the old chestnut commonly attributed to playwright George Bernard Shaw. One of those separations is in ...

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In American English, some slang words come and go. And some stay and stay. Or as Walt Whitman poetically observed in his 1885 defense of American slang, complete with creative spelling: "Slang ... is ...

It's also got scenery, history and a national anthem no one can sing. Those are just some of the things we celebrate, each time July 4 rolls around. But there's one thing we often forget about, as we ...

It’s a word we often think of when we mean “easy,” but its origins are anything but simple. “Cakewalk” dates back to “prize walks,” or dances performed by enslaved Africans on Southern plantations, in ...