Beyond English Fluency: What's Next?

‘Like’ isn’t a lazy linguistic filler – the English language snobs need to, like, pipe down

Listen: The Other Cancel Culture

Listen: Help on the Way

Why People Take Offence

Listen: Order Out of Order

Should You or Must You?

From ‘Dada’ to Darth Vader

Linguists found the ‘weirdest languages’ – and English is one of them

Listen: A Crack at Nostalgia

Cliches may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliche is another's sliced bread

Get yer hand off it, mate, Australian slang is not dying

When Subjects and Verbs Agree

Why do Americans say ‘bay-zle’ and the English say ‘baa-zle’?

A History of 'Loneliness'

Listen: The Sum

Do we swear too much?

How holiday cards help us cope with a not-so-merry year, according to a professor of comedy

How Thanksgiving Tells a Story of America’s Pluralism

Is It "It's" or "Its"?