Due to its rapid success, the brand name Xerox became interchangeable with the word copy, much like the brand Kleenex has become synonymous ... Asking a colleague to save something on a disk will ...

Think twice before you use words like “lackaday” or “nonplussed”—they may mean something quite different than what you’d assume.

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Swear words lack the consonant sounds l, r, w and y across several languages – including Chinese, English and Spanish, according to a new study from researchers at Royal Holloway, University of ...

These four sounds are missing from some of the seven words you can never say on television, and the pattern prevails in other languages too, researchers say.

Words and sounds can establish a rhythm for your poem and capture the reader or listener's imagination, author Michelle Schaub writes.

The Michigan accent, part of the Inland North accent, is part of American English. Here are how some words sound in the accent.

The letters ough are pronounced differently, depending on the word they're in. Find out how to pronounce these words in this Bitesize primary KS2 English guide.