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Late night host Conan O’ Brien remarked on the recent news that scientists have discovered the reason that women talk way more than men. Says our funny (male) host:  ‘They actually [...]

Let’s take another step along the way to mastery of the English language.  There is this interesting category of words called contronyms.  These are terms that, depending on context, can [...]

As you become more familiar with speaking, reading and writing English, you discover that the most common phrases in use are so deeply embedded in  the language that few people stop to think [...]

Karma is a word that we all know well. In fact, we use it a lot!   Karma is a way of looking at the world that seems to make total sense.  And it’s a word for which there is no direct [...]

What makes English hard to learn for non-native speakers of English is that the language is full of double meanings. The pun is about wordplay that exploits those double meanings. Wikipedia [...]

  English fails are very common not only in non-English speaking countries but the amount of English fails that we see on signage, posters, and even in business emails in English-Speaking [...]

Autumn – otherwise known as Fall in the United States of America – is loved in America because after a long hot summer, its cooler weather and its astonishing colors are a comfort and [...]

As if learning to speak  English is not enough.  But these fabulous  words deserve a place in everybody’s vocabulary! These are untranslatable words in English, there is not phrasal or word [...]

Even if you do not know what adverbials – or adverbial phrases – are, you are using them constantly in conversation. Adverbs and adverbials are similar but not the same.  An adverbial [...]

Everyone has an accent – it might be a mother-tongue accent or, as with ESL students, a second language accent. An accent is the way that you say words.An accent is how an individual pronounces a [...]