Every week at this time, the Voice of America tells about popular words and expressions used in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Word expert Mitford Mathews says that as early as eighteen fifty-four, an American publication used the words peanut agitators.

VOA: special.2010.10.03

Professor Jones had used the words "trick" and "hide the decline" in relation to a graph showing temperature decreases.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

In the e-mail, he used the words "trick" and "hide the decline" when writing about a graph showing rising temperatures.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

They used a system of measurement called the Body Mass Index to define words like obese and overweight.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Shakespeare used his sharp mind and poetic inventiveness to create hundreds of new words and rework old ones.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

In addition,those using swear words said they experienced less pain than those who used control words.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

I'm Rich Kleinfeldt with some financial words and expressions used in business and the stock market.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

The Dictionary of Soldier Talk says GI was used for the words galvanized iron in a publication about the vehicles of the early twentieth century.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

He used rhyming words, words with the same ending sound, like fish and wish.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

he presented two words. Then he used them in simple sentences like this.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

Some schools used a version in which all racist words have been removed.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

It is about a sign that is used to represent some words.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

He used less than two hundred twenty-five words to write the book.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

Many other French words are commonly used in English.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Many French words are used in the arts.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

It is the first time the technique has been used to document how the brain processes grammar and produces words.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15