Everyone knows that for the Brits an elevator is a “lift,” an apartment is a “flat,” and those chips you’re snacking on are actually called “crisps.” But British people also say some other really ...

From phrases like ‘Bob’s your uncle’ to ‘swings and roundabouts’, British English is full of sayings and expressions that appear to make little sense. But for refugees and asylum seekers arriving in ...

Whether you’re keeping up with all the drama surrounding the royal family or binging shows like Fleabag and Peaky Blinders, you’ve undoubtedly run across the weird and wacky words that make up British ...

I grew up on British humor—Monty Python, Blackadder, Eddie Izzard, Alan Partridge—you name it. There’s just something about the dry wit, the relentless sarcasm, and the ability to make awkwardness ...

A Canadian man living in the UK has revealed the common British sayings that he finds amusing. Matt Giffen, 29, moved to London last year after relocating from his home country with his girlfriend, ...

In Funny Girl, Nick Hornby uses the story of a reluctant beauty queen from Blackpool as the hook for a rambunctious cultural history of British TV comedy 50 years ago. As befits a novel about a ...

Banished by their MI5 betters to the mildewing outpost of Slough House in London, the disgraced British intelligence agents of “Slow Horses” — a nickname that reflects their “put out to pasture” limbo ...

The winner of this week’s Open Championship at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland obviously will make memories of a lifetime. Tom Lehman, winner of the 1996 Open at Royal Lytham and St. Annes in ...