The place is a tourist hotel in the South. An American tourist asks the receptionist, “Where’s the elevator?” After some ...

This video teaches twenty popular American slang words that you’ll hear in everyday conversations. Each term is explained in ...

It's also got scenery, history and a national anthem no one can sing. Those are just some of the things we celebrate, each time July 4 rolls around. But there's one thing we often forget about, as we ...

American English is showing up in British schools. What explains it? And is the traffic one way?

Ashley Jackson moved from Texas in the US to Manchester in the UK – and she's noticed four words that are very different between the two places. It's definitely been an adjustment!

Americans have a sort of fascination with the English accent. It's entranced and captivated us for centuries, not to mention all of the British-accented hot actors du jour (I'm looking at you, Andrew ...

It’s a word we often think of when we mean “easy,” but its origins are anything but simple. “Cakewalk” dates back to “prize walks,” or dances performed by enslaved Africans on Southern plantations, in ...