This article was produced for the Observatory by the Independent Media Institute. Danica Tomber is an applied linguist with a master of arts in teaching English to speakers of other languages from ...

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Included in a list of over 500 words and new meanings just added to the Merriam Webster dictionary is a new definition for the word "they" — specifically, as a singular pronoun used by people whose ...

The listener could have complained that "chomping at the bit" is a cliché, and that it's one we've used at least three times so far this month. But his gripe was more specific — that we should have ...

For 30 years Susan Butler has been at the helm of the Macquarie Dictionary. Here she defends the inclusion of a much-derided word I like to joke that, as the editor of the Macquarie Dictionary, I am ...

If students are overheard using the words they will be asked to reflect on them Slang such as "ain't", "innit" and "coz" has been banned from a school in south London to try to help students find ...