I don’t seem to have lived my year on the same page as the Oxford wordsmiths, and perhaps we live in a parallel universe.
Vocabulary is something you have to work on your whole life, stressed Sigmundsson. “We have to work on our vocabulary from birth, throughout our school years, and really our whole lives.”
Let’s take a look at some idioms related to battle and see what they mean and how they originated.
A new book describes a revolution in the English language, changing it for sound-based spelling.
This year's winner means to have "style, charm, or attractiveness; the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner.”
Babies don’t begin to process phonetic information reliably until seven months old – too late to form the foundation of language.
Florida research studied between those who speak two languages and those who speak one and found that the bilingual brain may be better at ignoring irrelevant info
Experimenting with new things was the approach chosen by Oshrit Mor, coordinator of AMIT Hammer’s English program and its Mofet program for gifted students.
Let’s take a little geographical galavant and see how certain cities came by their metropolitan monikers.
The Emergency Interpreting Call Center at Bar-Ilan University is providing language interpreting in 10 languages.