This is Bongo’s election year. The biggest political parties, i.e. the ruling CCM and the opposition outfit Chadema, elected top party honchos this week. The CCM, to be exact, elected a new deputy ...

Jenni Torres is the new executive director of WIDA, the organization that oversees English learner assessments in most states ...

An idea can be a thought or suggestion. There are some words that we often use together. These are called collocations. Learn ...

Recently, the Oxford English Dictionary, OED listed 22 Nigerian into its vocabulary Kingsley Ugwuanyi, OED consultant who ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...

The first word on our list that can’t be fully translated because it carries emotion behind it we don’t tend to pack into ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain, has identified the causes of impairments in expressing grammatical tense in people with aphasia.

English teachers might have told students the word "each" is pronoun that gets a singular verb, but that's only part of the story, writes grammar expert June Casagrande.

A new study analyzing over 160,000 English-language films has revealed a disturbing trend: characters are talking about murder and killing more frequently than ever before, even in movies that aren't ...

If you’ve ever felt that modern movies seem to resonate with a chorus of ominous verbs that echo through scenes of action, drama, and suspense, you’re not alone. A recent study confirms an increase in ...