Tired of learning new English words only to forget them the next day? In this lesson, Claire shares five proven strategies to ...

Text readability encompasses two aspects, namely, ease of comprehension and ease of processing (in relation to the effort ...

A recent study from Unscramblerer.com found the most mispronounced words in the U.S. based on frequent internet searches for ...

Trains move through the world's subway stations in a consistent pattern: arriving, stopping, and moving to the next stop—and ...

Uproarious and ingenious, Burrows’s Dictionary Stories is more than 150 shorts composed entirely from example sentences taken from 12 different dictionaries. Burrows crafts tense postapocalyptic ...

Armed with a new list of words and using the power of social media, a new study has found that by the age of 20, a native English-speaking American knows 42,000 dictionary words. How many words do we ...

More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.

Of course, it's impossible to provide an exact number of words in English, since new words are being added to the dictionary, and falling out of use, pretty much constantly. But what's an approximate ...

Other languages have words that mean false, tacky, or trying too hard, but only the English slang term “cheesy” can fully express something so fake that it stinks like Camembert: “He came up to me at ...