Language learning

Short answer: “Anyone” and “anybody” mean the same, perhaps with one exception. Long answer: Some authors ascribe slightly different (...)

Stress placement in Italian is variable, just like in English (the stressed syllable changes from word to word). However, Italian has (...)

The noun Orient comes from Latin oriens, which means “east”. The word was introduced into English as a general designation for countries (...)

Whenever I publish a language map, such as the one of the languages of Europe, I get comments claiming that “Xyz is not a language”. For (...)

If you take a look at my map of the most common surnames in Europe, you will see that Nowak, Novák, and Novak are the most common (...)

The name Gruber is a moderately popular surname in Germany and the most common surname in Austria. It is, in one way or another, derived (...)

Imagine you want to write a comment to an article you’ve just read. You want to refer to someone else who also posted a comment, so you (...)

Both “dated” and “outdated” can be used to describe things that are out of date, but the difference is that “dated” usually refers to (...)

If you “plead guilty”, it means that you state in court that you are guilty of a crime. So far, so good, but what if the action took place (...)

English speakers are very creative when it comes to making up new words by combining parts of words that already exist. For example, most (...)