Current English prose, on both sides of the water, reveals an ideal of prose-writing most like the leaden sky of a November day, that overspreads the earth with dreariness, — no rift in its ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer Peter Ackroyd about his new book, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination. Ackroyd discusses some of the defining features of English literature and ...

Say what now? A Brit explains the history of the cockney accent and how to understand it better.

This linguistic deep dive explores how English has shifted through slang, internet culture, and informal speech since the ...