And now Paul's free English vocabulary size test, using 100 words, is available online ... in film or TV you'll need to know the 3,000 most common lemmas. And if you want to get your head ...

It’s one third of the single most-used word in English—“the”—and appears in the most common English noun (“time”), the most ...

Many people struggle with learning the English language because there are so many nuanced spellings and usages for different words that don't conform to logical patterns. The hardest words to spell ...

They cannot spell common, everyday words. Punctuation is apparently no longer taught ... I always try to use simple English, and yet I have talked to classes when quite a minority of the pupils did ...

Here are 20 of the most commonly mispronounced words in English, and how to say them right. Ironically, many people mispronounce this word! It’s that sneaky dropping of the “o” from the word ...

Is it called marscapone or mascarpone? One of the most common words we get wrong is mascarpone. So many try to make it mars-ka-pone but it really is mahs-car-POH-nay. That toasted bread bite we ...

Language is a living, evolving system that adapts to the needs and creativity of its speakers. Among the most fascinating ...

In 2015, a Radio 1 Newsbeat survey of 3,000 18 ... who feel the word shouldn't be used by anyone - whatever their race. "It's actually probably the most offensive word in English," Labour MP ...

Most of the world’s languages are written alphabetically; in an alphabetic writing system the basic components represent sounds only without any reference to meaning. For example, the letter “b” in ...