A new book offers a quintessential guide to classic, common British phrases—including their quirky history and definition. Back when Britain ruled an empire, persuading enough young men to join the ...

LONDON — According to the august Oxford English Dictionary, going bananas was simply not done before 1968, nobody went bonkers before 1957 and no one went to the loo before 1940. But the publishers of ...

Look, British English is a problem all of its own. Between saying cheerio and looking like a dog's dinner, there's a high chance that foreigners will have absolutely no idea what's going on. But if ...

Learn how to sound more natural and fluent in English with these 30 real-life phrases, including simple idioms and common ...

Being an unrepentant Anglophile, I’ve adopted certain British ways of life — an obsession with tea and McVitie’s biscuits being one of them — and when I’m in the U.K., I’m happy to use English words ...

Of 10,000 U.K. teachers surveyed, 50% reported hearing their students say "trash" or "garbage" instead of the more typical ...