There's an amusing email being sent round which has some common phrases British people use and others mis-interpret. I was actually shocked at how I often use these phrases without giving any thought. Now, when I send emails to an international audience, I check for anything that could be mis-in...

As far as I remember, there used to be a checkbox at the bottom of the question form to mark it as community wiki (CW). I don't see it anymore. I assume this functionality changed. How does it work now? I ask because I posted a new question that I would have marked as CW: What words can I use to...

Hi, so i am going to recieve a random passage from the book "1984" and will be given 12 minutes to read it, write all over it, and then do a 4+ minute oral presentation on it. My teacher also says to focus on how the style affecs the meaning of the passage and to keep connecting everything with ...

Apart from the most common ones (he/she, it, the singular they), what are the most common words sometimes used as a gender-neutral pronoun in English to be used when referring back to an adult human, who was mentioned previously? Of course, one can refer to non-humans (and even babies!) as 'it',...