The Treasury Department and U.S. Mint won't make any more pennies. What does that mean for the future of sayings such as "a ...

Vladimir Nabokov’s leap away from Russian, his native language, was not an instantaneous, effortless transformation.

An upturned urinal, a spade hanging from the ceiling, an unmade bed, a banana duct-taped to a wall… and now a load of old ...

A play on the idiom, "money for old rope", David Shrigley is selling 10-tons of salvaged cords at Stephen Friedman Gallery in ...

One aspect of the English language that makes it particularly difficult to learn is the fact that we rarely say exactly what ...

Learn a new phrase and make your English sound more natural and interesting. Words We Use is a bilingual series that helps ...

Travel shines when conversations land well. Words carry different weight across borders, and a few everyday American phrases ...

When: Lampeter-Strasburg school board meeting, Nov. 3. What happened: Responding to the needs of students with a native ...

There are 171,476 words in current use in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. If you’re ...

Get into the Halloween spirit while improving your English! In this fun lesson, Claire teaches six spooky idioms you can use this season, like “skeletons in the closet,” “ghost town,” and “bite the ...

Working in a neurorehabilitation service with people with acquired brain injuries means that cognitive assessments are our 'bread and butter' – from the WAIS-IV and WMS-IV, to the TOPF, TOMM, D-KEFS, ...

Five-hundred shoeboxes have been filled with Christmas presents for children in Eastern European countries. Volunteers at St Mary's Church, in Brixham, Devon, have packed and checked boxes filled with ...