Would adopting a phonetic alphabet speed up our learning of the English language?
A dictionary key is over ten times less complex and can probably be learned ten times as quick. It has been claimed that instead of 3 years to achieve literacy, highly phonemic notations may take only 3 months to master!

Fantastic, “a collection of collective nouns that may or may not have found their way into the Oxford English Dictionary.”

Seven words or terms are vying for the honour of being the one millionth word to be officially added to the English language.
I will always remember the magical moment when I saw and heard a brand new English word being created. It happened on a commuter train from Oxford to Paddington, during the evening rush, [...]

Your questions answered on how the alphabet came to be in its current format and order.
The modern English alphabet is the 23-letter Latin assortment with three additions hastened by the invention of movable type. W starts showing up in English letter lists in the 16th century, replacing the previous literal double U (or V) that [...]

English grammar guide The Elements of Style has been the subject of a round of celebrations this month marking the fiftieth anniversary of its publication.
As this particular book did not feature in the English courses I studied, news of the various celebrations has been an introduction of sorts to the reference.
As I have read [...]

The words squeeze, guts, stick, bad, push, turn, wipe, and stab, are all English language words that are likely to fade from use in the near future, according to Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading.
Meanwhile, the fastest-changing words are projected to die out and be replaced by other words much sooner. [...]

Voting is open, until January 31, to select Macquarie Dictionary’s “people’s choice” word of 2008.
There are 95 words (and terms) in 19 categories, but “guerilla dining” appealed to me the most:
guerilla dining: noun dining at a restaurant that has been set up temporarily in an unused space such as a car park, beach, rooftop [...]

A standout moment in an otherwise less than standout Star Trek movie, The Final Frontier is Spock’s use of the word marshmelon instead of marshmallow, during a camp out in Yosemite National Park.
Some Trek fans argue it is an error by Spock, who is slightly out of touch with camping rituals on Earth (not surprising [...]

Cool, a website especially dedicated to making the distinction between it’s and its clear. This could start something though, how something similar for lets versus let’s? Ah, when to use an apostrophe, and when not to…
And on the subject of apostrophes, this article on their correct usage at Flying Solo.

This is the endorsement I’ve been waiting for: Punctuation Man has decided to throw his support behind the use of the serial comma, or Oxford comma, which is, of course, also known as the Harvard comma:
There is no small debate about the serial comma (also known as the Oxford Comma). It is a comma used [...]