Pidgin evolved at the height of the slave trade in the 1700s and 1800s, to enable the buying and selling of millions of human beings.

Oregon’s housing agency failed to follow basic public contracting requirements ... officials had followed the state’s own procurement rules. While the state has blamed broker Pacific Housing ...

Develop the English language and academic skills you will need to study at LSE and get to know the LSE community before you start your programme. Apart from improving my basic English skills, I was ...

How can you use natural pauses in English? Pauses and the flow of speech are very important for sounding natural when speaking. By pause we mean a complete gap between words, or just a slowing ...

The United States has unleashed a trade war by announcing a minimum 10% tariff on all imports, in addition to specific tariffs for its trading partners. These new tariffs are calculated using a ...

The letter 't' can also be pronounced as a small /d/ in some accents, especially in American English. This sound is sometimes called a flap. It can come between vowel sounds, like in 'city' /sɪd ...

provided the original work is properly cited. The negative transfer of mother tongue has a big influence on the students in Sichuan when they learn English ...