Karachi, a megacity shrugging off its old definition as a den of violent crime, is Pakistan's incubator for talent in ...

Some English words are more euphonious than others, and some are more cacophonic. Here I discuss the latter, the ugliest English words, of which I have analysed 415 from a large number of published ...

Despite a musty reputation, Scrabble has a cult youth following in Pakistan, a legacy of the English language imposed by the ...

If someone asked you to spell gastritis, aggrandize, anachronistic or circumlocution, would you be able to spell any one of ...

It’s no disrespect to speakers of, say, Tagalog to enforce English as our predominant language — and not learning it excludes them from the mainstream of American life.

The word "diffident" is an adjective that describes someone who lacks self-confidence or is shy and reserved in their actions or speech. A "diffident" person often hesitates to express their thoughts ...

"I have removed it from my vocabulary completely," the high school elective teacher told Newsweek of the phrase.

The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and derives from Captain Charles Boycott ...

The words escape slowly from Eleanor Tafoya when she speaks of the decline of the Jemez language among the Pueblo’s youth. “If we don't do anything, we're going to lose our traditions or culture," she ...