The English language is famous for being tricky with its spelling. It has letters you do not say, tricky endings, and words taken from other languages. Because of this, even people who have spoken ...

Many people use simple English words every day, but many of them use these words in the wrong way. This happens because these ...

Commonly Confused Words: Have you ever used the word access where you should have used excess? Or Have you got confused about which to use-affect or effect? Well, don’t worry as this is not unusual.

No matter how fluent you are, there are still some words in the English language that stump us when it comes to pronounciation. We put together a list of words that people tend to say or read ...

It seems that those born between 1997 and 2012 need to work on their vocabulary. TikTokers have pointed out that members of Gen Z seem to mispronounce or misuse a couple of very common words, and it's ...

Have you played today’s Wordle yet? As we’ve seen happen in the past, an American spelling for today’s word has British players taking to Twitter to vent their frustration at not being able to guess ...

As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...

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 ...

We all make spelling mistakes from time to time — in fact, “misspelled” is itself often misspelled as “mispelled.” It’s easy to get many words wrong, particularly homophones. These are words that ...

We all make spelling mistakes from time to time — in fact, “misspelled” is itself often misspelled as “mispelled.” It’s easy to get many words wrong, particularly homophones. These are words that ...