For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve contributed to our pages.
Academics from the University of Sheffield hope to create a ‘vivid, honest record’ of swearwords and other slights to stop them dying out ...
Linguists have appealed for the public’s help across the UK in creating a national list of regional swear words. Experts at Sheffield University want to create a snapshot of how English is spoken in ...
Join Josh, Ted, and Dan from Korean Englishman as they explore the fascinating world of UK accents and unique British phrases ...
Jordan and Ray Bath took a risk by leaving behind their lives in Basildon, Essex, to start again in Majorca, Spain, where ...
Artificial intelligence has become a master at drafting emails, organizing schedules, and suggesting vacation spots, but it ...
James McAvoy once attempted (and failed) a Northern English accent for an audition, he said. McAvoy, who hails from Glasgow, ...
What do you call a bread roll? If you’re in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire then it’s a “cob”, people from Durham, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland would say it’s a “bun”, whereas in ...
Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture ...
These cities and landscapes capture the essence of travel hotspots like Boulder, Napa, and Copenhagen—without the long-haul ...
While she's househunting in Boston, it isn't actually her hometown ...
Even today, there is the sense of England as the uneasy marriage of two realms. The North as a stout rival (or treasonous ...