I just read Ben Yagoda’s “American Idioms Have Gone Missing” (The Chronicle Review, June 18). While many of his idiomatic observations are spot on, I have used or heard several of these expressions ...

American English has now had nearly 250 years to cement its independence from its across-the-pond progenitor. Have we used that time wisely? We figured it would be fun and easy to celebrate our ...

It's also got scenery, history and a national anthem no one can sing. Those are just some of the things we celebrate, each time July 4 rolls around. But there's one thing we often forget about, as we ...

An American content creator who is familiar with the UK and British culture has pointed out one word he says makes no sense ...

As an American visiting Scotland for the first time, I encountered surprising language differences. While grocery shopping, I learned that "mince" means ground beef and "rocket" is arugula. I wasn't ...

TROUGH Mr. Mencken’s book on our language has the rare distinction among philological works of deserving to be read especially for its faults, it has, so far as word-mongering is concerned, a distinct ...