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 [...]

Even though he is passionate about Shakespeare, New York theater producer Ross Williams understands very well that 400-year- old English is difficult even for English speakers to decipher. But he [...]

When you first arrived in the United States to study English abroad, did you find yourself waiting for what was going to follow the first time you heard the word “Hey!”  ? And you [...]

Like many Americans, we are often unaware of our own accent. But, everyone has an accent – it might be your mother-tongue accent or a second language accent. Accent is how an individual

  Slang and American English are in a continual state of change.  Each year the language gets a whole lot of new additions.  Students take the lead in creating slang.  Here are some campus [...]

Of the 7,000 languages spoken around the world, nearly 500 are classified as endangered.  While 133 languages are spoken by just 10 people or less, there are two known speakers of Lipan Apache in [...]