Want to understand real American English? In this video, you’ll learn 20 slang words Americans use every day — from hang out ...

Over 300,000 people searched for help pronouncing "gyro" alone, while that fancy meat and cheese board "charcuterie" ...

Some of the words are cutesy (kerfuffle, jubilee). Others are onomatopoeic, with a similar sound to the idea they’re describing (meow, clink, squeak). Some are bizarre sounding (for example, syzygy: ...

In American English, some slang words come and go. And some stay and stay. Or as Walt Whitman poetically observed in his 1885 defense of American slang, complete with creative spelling: "Slang ... is ...

“The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language.” So goes the old chestnut commonly attributed to playwright George Bernard Shaw. One of those separations is in ...

Other languages have words that mean false, tacky, or trying too hard, but only the English slang term “cheesy” can fully express something so fake that it stinks like Camembert: “He came up to me at ...

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CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--‘Homer’ is Word of the Year, according to the world’s most popular online dictionary for learners of English. The winning word from Cambridge Dictionary was ...

Popular words used in Black culture for centuries are making their way into Oxford’s newest dictionary. Henry Louis Gates Jr., historian and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African ...