The English language is a beautiful thing if you hear it spoken correctly by native English speakers. Most will use Cambridge ...

One Word Substitution means using a single word to replace a long phrase or sentence without changing its original meaning. It helps make communication more clear, concise, and effective. These ...

Commonly Confused Words: Have you ever used the word access where you should have used excess? Or Have you got confused about which to use-affect or effect? Well, don’t worry as this is not unusual.

In addition to being one of the most fun words to say—and hardest to spell—in English, “onomatopoeia” probably calls to mind a whole bunch of silly, fun words. Onomatopoeia is the process of creating ...

Scholars say that what we now call English started when Germanic tribes settled in present-day Britain at around 500 CE. The Oxford English dictionary counts 171,476 words in current use. A staggering ...

Feifei You’re listening to The English We Speak from BBC Learning English, and we are learning the expression 'famous last ...

English language has "borrowed" words for centuries. But is it now lending more than it's taking, asks Philip Durkin, deputy chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. English speakers may not be ...