Sorry to break it to you, but ‘mischievous’ isn’t “miss-CHEE-vee-uss,” and ‘boatswain’ isn’t “BOAT-swain.” We’re breaking it all down in the latest episode of The List Show on YouTube. Why it’s so ...

Everyone keeps telling you that you should be a writer and that you’re an ace at literature. It gets to your head. You start believing your own hype. And that’s the moment that somebody tells you that ...

Sometimes being right makes you sound so stupid. The new book, “You’re Saying it Wrong” by brother/sister duo Ross and Kathryn Petras, presents 150 words that are commonly mispronounced — and some of ...

Pronunciations are back in the news. According to Country Life magazine last week, one of the telltale signs of 'the perfect gentleman', beyond knowing how to iron a shirt, never wearing a tank top ...

Then to my great surprise, he began texting me a beautiful English, and he understood every word that I was typing. His grasp of the English language was brilliant in terms reading and writing, but in ...