Since most Americans describe their living area as suburban, you would think we’d have a firmer definition of what distinguishes an urban environment from a suburban one. The United States government has clear definitions of what constitutes a rural area and an urban one, but what about the suburbs? An urban area is the area …
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Math has become easier than ever now that we have calculators at our fingertips and as part of our phones. But dealing with numbers that mean something is easy. The number 0, due to its multiple properties, can certainly stump a lot of people. Zero is a rational number because it is an integer. An …
You may think you know what the phrase “humor me” means, but do you really? Although it may sound as if it has something to do with telling a joke, it actually doesn’t. A considerable number of the words and phrases that we use in English may sound like one thing but mean another. The …
When you travel to native English speaking countries or areas, you will hear common phrases and terms, like “Thank you,” for example, in very different ways. Expressions like these are sometimes colloquial, meaning that they are most commonly only used in specific areas or by certain people. Hearing someone thanking you by saying “Greatly appreciated” …
Oxygen is everywhere, and we cannot imagine life or survive without it. Yet, as omnipresent as it is on Earth, what fundamentally constitutes oxygen can leave the best of us gasping for air. Namely, is oxygen O2 or just O? Oxygen exists as two atoms in its stable molecular form and is written as O2 or …
Homophones can make the English language incredibly confusing, where one word sounds the same, but you can spell them differently and mean something completely different. For example, what is the correct way to use “What are you up to” or “What are you up too”? “What are you up to?” is the right way to …