A University of Manchester lecturer has discovered that the famous first line of English language’s oldest epic poem has been misinterpreted, ever since it was popularised almost 200 years ago. Dr ...

Tetsu (@ wtetsu), a software developer who develops free games etc., has a Chrome extension called " Mouse Dictionary" that allows you to refer to the meaning of English words by just hovering over ...

After Uganda’s president said he and Queen Elizabeth were ‘friends with mutual benefits’, I was inspired to investigate some other confusing idioms Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, recently ...

An American, left baffled by the varying meanings of a specific word on either side of the Atlantic, has sought advice on the English language. Such words are quite common - for instance, in the UK a ...

English has rules. Teachers insist on them. Exams depend on them. Grammar books list them carefully. And yet, English breaks its own rules all the time. Take pl ...