Some may say it’s a storm in a tea cup - but a whole host of English phrases are at risk of dying out. We’ve got some super sayings in our English language, I’m sure everyone will agree. And it’s ...

Words don’t always mean what they look like they should. They slip into our conversations wearing borrowed clothes, hinting at one meaning while pointing to something else entirely. We tend to call ...

A person only lies down. A person does not lay down, unless that person is laying down a thing, such as a book or another direct object. You can also lay down the law. And hens lay eggs. There is an ...

It’s often said that English has more words than any other language. That’s a difficult statistic to corroborate, not least because not every language has words in the way we would recognize them (and ...

Eight Irish English, or Hiberno-English, words that are "untranslatable" or "cannot be translated into another" are included in the Oxford English Dictionary's (OED) March 2025 update. The OED is ...