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“Chief—President Mbeki, i.e.—avoids certain culturally loaded diction, such as ‘majesty’ and ‘monumentality’. And ...

Language jokes are a unique wave of humor that does two hardly compatible things: cracks you up and makes your teacher proud.

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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours faithfully, Dan. Admit to doing something wrong: admit + -ing. Admit means 'tell the truth about doing ...

Terms like ‘affordability,’ ‘socialism’ and ‘famine’ take on new, politically convenient meanings.

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Preply listed nine other words that ranked as the hardest in 2025. (It looks like Aug. 13-14 was a particularly stressful period for puzzlers.) Here's a look at the top 10. EDIFY -- which means to ...

The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

Antidisestablishmentarianism, everyone’s favorite agglutinative, entered the pop culture lexicon on August 17, 1955, when Gloria Lockerman, a 12-year-old girl from Baltimore, correctly spelled it on ...

And if you’re angry about it, that just proves the point. By Jennifer Schuessler Over the past few months, Jennifer Lawrence, World Series fans and right-wing influencers have all confessed to it. And ...

The English We Speak is your chance to catch up on the very latest English words and phrases. In under 3 minutes, we help you stay ahead of the pack by giving you 'must have' phrases that you can use ...