Jan. 14-20 is Idiom Week, and today we thought we’d have a heart-to-heart about some strange phrases we use. Idioms, metaphors and similes are all types of figurative language. According to ...

From William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney, figurative language such as idiom, metaphor, symbolism and allegory all function to make a poem sound more colourful and appealing to the reader. But are we ...

Being a linguist—and someone who has tried to learn several languages (including English) in addition to my mother tongue ...

Artificial Intelligence can be amazing. It has the world's knowledge at its imaginary fingertips and the ability to do so many incredible things, but, like us, it does make mistakes. Known as ...

Last week, the phrase “You can’t lick a badger twice” unexpectedly went viral on social media. The nonsense sentence—which was likely never uttered by a human before last week—had become the poster ...