The road to becoming a champion speller is made easier with support from family and friends, but ultimately it depends on an individual student’s commitment to learning, a scholar writes.
A sign encourages people to vote in Charlotte, N.C., ahead of the 2022 U.S. midterm elections.
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There’s a long history of communities speaking Romany in the UK, so it’s hardly surprising that some of its words have found their way into everyday English.
‘No worries’: this Australian slang was popularised in the 1980s by the hugely popular comedy film, Crocodile Dundee.
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An American university has banned the expression ‘no worries’. Here are some other words and phrases that confuse speakers of different versions of English.
From ‘turkey trot’ to ‘going cold turkey,’ the centerpiece to many Thanksgiving dinners has lent its name to many things. But it also borrowed its name from elsewhere.
Zaila Avant-garde is the first Black American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
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