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38) 5 English Phrases and 10 Idioms for Complaining About Your Job

37) New Words in English

36) Who's confident [confidant?] about using -ance, -ence, and similar suffixes? | OxfordWords blog

35) Quick English: Other Words For Friend

34) Surfing the Information Superhighway: the changing face of Internet language | OxfordWords blog

33) A little bit of pixie dust: five of Disney’s contributions to the English language | OxfordWords blog

32) English Idioms for Personality & Character from espressoenglish

31) The 10 best words the internet has given English from The Guardian

30) The oink on the page: pig idioms and expressions | OxfordWords blog

29) Do you salad or sandwich? The verbing of English from OUP

28) The half-life of metaphors from The Economist

27) loose or lose from OxfordWords blog

26) From lamingtons to sandwiches: looking at eponymous foods | OxfordWords blog

25) 20 Words We Owe to William Shakespeare from mental_floss

24) Environmental language - Top 20 Green Buzzwords | Macmillan

23)  An underground railway by any other name: seven subway monikers explained | OxfordWords blog

22)  11 Weirdly Spelled Words—And How They Got That Way from mental_floss


21)  How To Use Winter Vocabulary and Idioms in English from Kaplan International Colleges Blog


20)  What New Words Were Created in 2012? from BBC

19)  Words Formed from the Initial Letters of Other Words from Daily Writing Tips

18)  Language Cartoons from ecenglish:

17)  Confusing Words in English: Overview, Oversight, and Overlook
from Espresso English


16)  Words we're thankful for | OxfordWords blog
15)  In a nutshell, cutting the mustard by the skin of your teeth: popular idioms explained | OxfordWords blog
14)  Let them eat cake! Twelve facts about cake | OxfordWords blog




13)  50 Idioms about Fruits and Vegetables
12)  25 Idioms About Bread and Dessert
11)  50 Idioms About Meat and Dairy Products
10)  Idioms Referring to Colors of the Rainbow
9)  50 Idioms About Talking
from Daily Writing Tips


8)  Do you know your -ibles from your -ables? | OxfordWords blog

7)  In pictures: 10 Word of the Year runners-up | OxfordWords blog

Oxford Dictionaries last night announced that ‘omnishambles’ (UK) and ‘GIF’ (US) are their Words of the Year for 2012.

Here, appropriately, we’ve GIFed ten of the other words the judging panels were considering.

6)  Hobson-Jobson Soup: English Words from Indian Languages From Wordnik

5)  100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know
From Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
More from 100 Words Series

4)  What English learners want to hear – the top 100 most-listened to English words
From LexioPhiles

3)  A Year in Words - 2011
From Macmillan Dictionary


2)  Wiktionary:Academic Word List

1)  26 Weird English Words from A to Z from Voxy