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 ...

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

The AI revolution, which has begun to transform our lives over the past three years, is built on a fundamental linguistic ...

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 ...

Compound modifiers can be adverbs, too. Often, these compound adverbs come after the verb: She works part-time. And because adverbs can modify adjectives, as in “fabulously wealthy,” compound adverbs ...

One of the ways Christians have traditionally meditated on Good Friday is by reading and reflecting on the seven last words of Jesus from the cross. Luke records the final words of Jesus before he ...

Over a century has passed since the Titanic slipped beneath the icy Atlantic waves, yet the tale of the "unsinkable" ship lives on. Now, one of the most detailed 3D scans showing the Titanic wreck ...