This winter I added a new verb to my vocabulary … "penguin". I might say, “When the sidewalk is icy, I penguin over the slippery parts.” Walking like a penguin makes me feel safer when traversing icy ...

The word pococurante is a rare English word that describes a person who does not care much about things. It can be used for someone who feels indifferent or uninterested. The word was created by ...

Not long ago, a cellphone was a cell phone. A teenager was a teen-ager. Goodbye was good-bye. A website was a Web site. Legroom was leg room. Words and compounds evolve all the time. But in this ...

The apostrophe can be used to show who things belong to. If an item belongs to something, the apostrophe shows us who, by sitting at the end of the noun. If that noun doesn't end in s, the apostrophe ...

A pronoun takes the place of a noun close nounA noun is the name of a thing, such as an object, a place, or a person. in a sentence. Pronouns are short words like 'it', 'she', 'he', 'you', 'we', 'they ...

Did you hear the one about the vascular surgeon who walked into a plumbers' convention? Actually, it's not a joke. It also wasn't a convention. But it is a most intriguing story from the world of ...

In this lesson, high school students write ‘I am’ poems in their home language and then translate them into English, building ...

Fisticuffs, a noun for a physical fight using fists, is commonly used in news and informal conversation. Originating in the ...

Is mentioning Donald Trump or Epstein unparliamentary? Are the surnames of India's two richest families unparliamentary ...