They may still be using Google, but they’re not “Googling it.” Instead they’re saying “search it up,” as in: Who is that Norwegian soccer player with the long blond hair? Search it up. The “it” is ...

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People have woken up sounding French, Russian, or Irish, without learning a new language. Here’s what really happens when an accent changes.

Open and turn on may seem similar, but English speakers use them for completely different actions. You open a door, window, book or refrigerator, while you turn on a light, computer or television.

Nigerians expect English when they see a white foreigner approach. Instead, I greet them in their local language. The confusion quickly turns into wide smiles and disbelief. One sentence completely ...

Trent Park, the House of Secrets is a new museum in north London which explores the story of the secret listeners who ...

They were possibly the brightest pop boys of the 1980s, then they disappeared. Inside the comeback we never thought would ...

In the South Bronx, a lacrosse stick can be more than sports equipment, it can be a pathway to opportunity.

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From "deadline" to "lituation", from "prairie" to "amirite", America's linguistic independence has transformed the English language with a wealth of new words and phrases – shaping its own cultural ...