Well, “comrade,” I bet you always thought that word comes from Russian. Not so. Although the term was often associated with communism in Western culture during the last century, Communists of the ...

English Language Day 2025 is observed on April 23, a date chosen to honour both the birth and death anniversary of the legendary playwright and poet William Shakespeare, who is widely regarded as one ...

English is not an easy language to learn. Not only do you have to contend with compound expressions (like “make out” or “turn up”), but you must understand expressions that barely seem tethered to ...

That what we now know as modern English has its roots in old English, a form of English today’s users would find hard to understand? Interestingly, old English is believed to have originated from ...

Author Gabe Henry will present "Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell," at noon Wednesday, Sept. 17. Register at Have you ever wondered why the English spelling of words is sometimes… ...

Over time, the term came to be used to mean the age by which someone should stop working or could not be hired, presumably because they were too close to death, she says. Newspaper editors began using ...

Emily Reed does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The American Journal of Legal History was established in 1957 as the first English-language legal history journal. The journal remains devoted to the publication of articles and documents on the ...

Mr. Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring professor at Amherst College and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary. He is the author of the forthcoming book “The People’s Tongue: Americans and the ...