A Level English Language Website
Questions and Answers
Focus on English
Where does English come from? 
Which is the most popular language in the world?
Bad Language?
Do people speak less correctly now than they used to?
Why do people swear and should we stop them?
Why do people use slang, and how are slang terms created?
Words, Words, Words
What is the difference between a phoneme and a morpheme?
What is a word?
Learning to Talk
What is the easiest language to learn?
If children try to learn two languages simultaneously, will this mean
that they don’t learn either language properly?
What is the best way to learn a language?
Dialectology
What is the difference between a language and a dialect?
I am not clear on the development from a pidgin to a creole. Do all pidgins
become creoles?
Spelling
Some people have told me that "dining room" can be spelled as "dinning room". Not only the spelling changes, but they say this would be the correct way to do it. Is this true?