The place is a tourist hotel in the South. An American tourist asks the receptionist, “Where’s the elevator?” After some hesitation, the receptionist replies, “Sir, the lift is over there.” It is not ...

Ashley Jackson moved from Texas in the US to Manchester in the UK – and she's noticed four words that are very different ...

Modi’s utter fallacious and hollow understanding of Macaulay’s role with respect to India can be thoroughly exposed by ...

According to Country Life magazine last week, one of the telltale signs of 'the perfect gentleman' is knowing how to ...

Hospes in Latin means both a host and a guest. It’s a Janus word that reflects a reciprocal arrangement between not so much opposites as counterparts. Hospes gives us the word hospitality, which is ...

BY OLASUNKANMI AROWOLO Language is never neutral. In Nigeria, it has always been political, cultural and symbolic.

Young British children are more likely than their big siblings to adopt American phrases, a new survey of teachers in the U.K. has found. More than 50% of the teachers at elementary level schools who ...

By Olasunkanmi Arowolo Language is never neutral. In Nigeria, it has always been political, cultural and symbolic. Our ...

A US woman living in the UK reveals the British words and phrases she was "baffled" by when she moved - including "lollipop ...

People of my age have lived long enough to see the English language spoken and written in ways that were little short of ...

Nowadays, the word is used in everyday contexts to talk about the achievements of an individual — the highlight of our career ...

Shannon McCoole ran one of the world's largest dark web child abuse forums for around three years in the early 2010s. The ...