Following a day of pomp and pageantry, Trump and his wife, first lady Melania Trump, made their way to a long banquet table ...

Editor's Note: This segment was rebroadcast on July 24, 2019. That audio is available here. Linguist Lynne Murphy explores the differences between British and American English in her new book "The ...

American kids are binge-watching so much of the British cartoon “Peppa Pig’’ that they are developing English accents and even using words like “telly” and “ready, steady, go.” The so-called Peppa ...

Business Insider spoke to Philip Gooden, author and expert on the origins of the English language, about why the variety of English used in the US is different – and more traditional – to the variety ...

Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English. By Ben Yagoda. Princeton University Press; 288 pages; $24.95 and £20 British intellectuals enjoy bewailing the influx of Americanisms into the ...

Though they technically are the same language, British English and American English have scores of differences—from the small, like the extra “U” in “colour,” to the large, like the very different ...

After a long-haul flight to Australia, Janet Manley, from New York, noticed her 2-year-old stepped off the plane speaking with a British inflection. The 21-hour flight across the Pacific ...