In January 2025, PREMIUM TIMES reported that the Oxford English Dictionary added Nigerian terms, including Japa, 419, agberoo, abi, area boy, yahoo boy, yahoo, Edo, and Kanuri, to its global ...

Do you know how to use “as…as” correctly in English? In this lesson, we break down one of the most common comparison ...

Abstract: Natural languages are written and spoken languages, and NLP (Natural Language Processing) is the ability of a computer program to recognize both written and spoken languages. Word Sense ...

Some words feel like small discoveries-unfamiliar yet instantly interesting. Pulchritudinous is such a word. It first appears ...

The letter Z often feels unfamiliar to students. It appears less often than other letters, and when it does appear, the words ...

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Abstract: This paper takes implicit negative adverbs related to expectational negation in Chinese, English, Korean, and some Chinese minority languages as examples to illustrate the characteristics of ...

Our discussion of flat adverbs continues today as we, firstly, add more examples. I hope you remember what flat adverbs are: those that do not carry -ly. Rather, they have the same forms as adjectives ...

Cognitive dissonance happens when you hold two conflicting thoughts in your mind at the same time — like loving both hamburgers and cows. Cognitive dissonance is a theory in social psychology first ...

Adverbs are of different types. Among such are adverbs of manner (like smoothly, awkwardly and loudly) and those of time (today, yesterday and now). But there is a type not commonly taught: the one ...