Tired of learning new English words only to forget them the next day? In this lesson, Claire shares five proven strategies to ...

English is a quirky, often confusing language that's been shaped and influenced by many others. As such, it has a massive variety of words—but here are some we think rise above the crowd and deserve ...

Anne Curzan is the Geneva Smitherman collegiate professor of English and linguistics at the University of Michigan, where she is also dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. I do not ...

English has more words than most other languages, but there are still gaps. English has more words than most other languages, but there are still so many familiar things and experiences that we don't ...

Of course, it's impossible to provide an exact number of words in English, since new words are being added to the dictionary, and falling out of use, pretty much constantly. But what's an approximate ...