I’ve worked as a copy editor at The Daily Californian for about a year and a half. In that time, I’ve learned which words ...

Elderspeak’ can serve important functions in conversations between healthcare professionals and patients with dementia.

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts.

The Modern Greek language has some aspects that would totally baffle a native English speaker for various reasons.

Imagine a world where the last speaker of a language whispers their final words, and with that breath, an entire universe of stories, songs, knowledge, and identity vanishes. It’s not just a word or ...

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Elementary students learn to navigate dictionaries with confidence while having fun learning new words through these games.

T he English language is full of all sorts of quirks that can be infuriating to non-native speakers. (Imagine learning as an ...

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It was John McDonald’s goal that when we were finished with his high school English classes that we weren’t morons.

Such pronunciation overlap, particularly after sound changes deleting final vowels on words became widespread, created ...