Unfortunately, when language learners use a literal reading of an idiom to guess its figurative meaning, they are very often misled by ambiguous words. For example, they will almost inevitably ...

Around one in three schoolchildren in Britain's 'asylum capital' do not speak English as their first language, data has shown. Scottish Government figures show 28.8 per cent of students in Glasgow ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining speakers, while others, such as Chinese, English, Spanish and Hindi, are ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence ...

Temperatures are cooling and the sun is setting earlier: Fall is on the way. And with it, autumnal goodies like apple cider, pumpkin bread and those all-too-popular pumpkin spice lattes. But before ...

Pat Murphy calls them the 'Woodpeckers.' The rest of baseball may soon be calling them inevitable. The Milwaukee Brewers climbed back from a five-run deficit on August 10 to beat the New York Mets, ...

I often figuratively bristle at George Will’s conservative political columns, but I enjoyed his 8/1 discussion of words like “vibes,” “massive,” “iconic” and “unique,” whose meanings have ...

After Greenville native Ivory Moore lost his right to vote for a shoplifting charge in 1994 and completed a house arrest sentence in 1995, he spent the next 30 years building bridges, roads and oil ...