If an alien were to stand in the middle of the Quad, or maybe in the center of Lenoir Dining Hall, they’d hear some of the most exquisite diction of our species. Someone is “geekin” on the escalator.

One of the biggest frustrations for English learners is never quite crossing the bridge from ‘learner’ to ‘native’. No matter how fluent or confident you become, speaking English like you’ve grown up ...

If Geoffrey Chaucer, hailed as the ‘father of English literature’ was to be alive again, he would not get what was being said in his own mother tongue. In December 2021, ‘floofy’ was one of the new ...