But in real-world English, “like” can sometimes work like a conjunction. Opinion A Word, Please: A look at ‘got,’ one of the weirdest words in the English language ...

If you were asked to sum up 2020 in just one word, could you do it? The Oxford English Dictionary couldn't so it has come up with a list of words which have been used much more this year.

Antidisestablishmentarianism is regarded as the longest non-medical, non-coined, nontechnical word in the English language—and it keeps some robust company.

Probably because English has adopted words from so many other languages. For example, “happy” comes from Old English. But “jolly” came to us from the Old French “jolif.” ...

The Anglo Saxons didn’t say ‘the’, they said ‘sê’ – as in pass me ‘sê’ bread. Nowhere in Old English grammar is there actually a precise ancestor for ‘the’. But some time ...