The high priests of education promote formalism because it seems more impressive and more authoritative. Students, however, live in their own world of distinctively informal language, and teenagers ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. When we talked about “bizarro” words last week, we promised to talk this week about the difference between ...

You recall back in 2004 when George W. Bush referred to "rumors on the Internets." That instantly became a classic Bushism, but to my mind he got it right — not just because what we call the Internet ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Australian Electoral Commission will investigate why so many people cast informal votes at the federal election. Western Sydney ...

This lesson suits upper-intermediate to advanced learners. After listening, scroll down and test your knowledge with our quiz. You are cordially invited to _____. We ...

Far too many students find schoolwork to be boring. There are multiple reasons, but a main one is that academic instruction is typically framed in plain-vanilla, academic language and style. In the ...