Why does the word “answer” have a silent “w”?
11/19/2018
So to answer this question, the “w” was dropped because...
What language do they speak in the ISS?
11/8/2018
By definition —or maybe better said, by requirement— the language of the International Space Station (ISS) is English.
Why does ‘woman’ contain ‘man’ and ‘female’ contain ‘male’?
11/6/2018
Let's look into the history of English language...
Which language has the most words and which the least number of words in total?
10/31/2018
This is a very hard question to answer, mostly because the definition of “word” is really, really iffy.
Can you write a sentence in English the way it would look now, 100 years ago, and 500 years ago?
10/12/2018
Our language has changed a lot...
How and why did silent letters emerge in English?
9/21/2018
The easy answer is “because English can’t leave well enough alone.”
What is normal in your country but weird in the rest of the world?
9/2/2018
England is fairly small. Because of this, you’d expect that we all sound fairly similar, wouldn’t you?
What are some amazing facts about the English language?
8/27/2018
Just a few out of thousands of candidates...
