Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. You would think that, with all the words we have in our language, it would be perfectly natural to replace a word in an ...

Collocations, or natural word combinations, exist in any language, but until now there have been few resources for learners of Japanese on this important yet difficult subject. "Common Japanese ...

Here's a challenge: Assemble a meaningful phrase that returns fewer than 10 Google results. Now try "harsh reality" (151 billion results). Or "fearless leader" (a comparatively puny 25 billion).

In a word association game, a child asked what they thought of when given the word ‘illegal’ immediately replied ‘immigrant’. Why this should worry us ...

Take is one of the most commonly used verbs in the English language whose basic meaning is to move something or somebody from one place to another, e.g: I took him to the hospital because he was ...