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11 Words That Confuse Americans

Discover 11 words with different meanings in American and British English! Learn about 'rubber,' 'pants,' 'jumper,' and more ...
Take the words coffin and casket, for example. People tend to use these interchangeably, but is there any difference between ...
Most people are aware that many common geographical names found throughout the USA and Canada have been borrowed from various ...
The gap here has to do with whether there’s a right answer or a strong one. The Common Core’s reliance on standardized ...
There's a bigger game at play when it comes to the NBA stars arrested today & Donald Trump, warned Stephen A. Smith ...
ALMOST simultaneously with the author’s death comes the publication of Hermann Sudermann’s “The Mad Professor.” He had already referred to the novel in “The Book of My Youth” (1923) —”I shall not talk ...
Board of Education approved a cooperative development agreement with Invest U.P. during Tuesday’s meeting. Career Tech ...
The halftime debate reflects decades of Latin artists, from Jose Feliciano to Ricky Martin, being treated with doubt, suspicion, and even outrage.
I read novels in Spanish and listen to ’80s songs in Spanish. There are concepts and expressions that make sense to me only ...
Dictionaries are deceptively simple, and incredibly ambitious. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Stefan Fatsis about his book, "Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) The Modern Dictionary." ...
"Is the English language too difficult for you?” said a Homeland Security official to TIME when asked its use of the word ...