Language is a curious thing. It's constantly changing, almost as if it’s alive. For every new word we create, an old word falls out of fashion and fades into obscurity. There are some words and ...

Many popular sayings used by all of us in everyday life often have fun and interesting back stories — with some more well known than others. With thousands of words in the English language — and too ...

The popular phrase doesn't mean, of course, that there's an actual an elephant in the room, which would be quite something. Rather, it refers to a very big topic of conversation that no one is ...

Popular sayings in the English language often have multiple meanings — such as “a heart of gold” and “time is money.” Some expressions are also clever metaphors for deeper meanings. But where did they ...

Language is a living, breathing entity, constantly evolving as words and phrases are adopted, adapted, and sometimes stripped of their original context. Many expressions we use daily have fascinating ...

The No. 11 BYU Cougars suffered a lopsided loss against the No. 4 Texas Tech Red Raiders in the Big 12 championship game, ...

Sumanto Chattopadhyay has woven humour, curiosity, and a detective-like love for detail in balancing research with ...

From phrases like ‘Bob’s your uncle’ to ‘swings and roundabouts’, British English is full of sayings and expressions that appear to make little sense. But for refugees and asylum seekers arriving in ...

Hearing the Darrowby locals speak is assuredly part of why we love All Creatures Great and Small on MASTERPIECE, aye? The colorful and instantly recognizable Yorkshire dialect (known as Broad ...

The terms include "peanut gallery," "plantation shutters" and "open the kimono." In the midst of a cultural awakening on race, commonly used words and phrases and their origins are being reexamined ...