The BBC drama about the SAS and a hero from here shot itself in the unmentionables last week. For a truly lamentable attempt at a Northern Irish accent from the actor playing the Mayne man in SAS ...

But are these words and phrases here to stay? Dr Esther Asprey, senior lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton, has been researching what the future looks ...

Words like “rawdogging,” “brainrot” and “brat” are among the American Dialect Society’s picks for words of the year for 2024. The group of hundreds of linguistics scholars voted on words or phrases ...