Discover why proper pronunciation is essential in both magic and everyday life. In the wizarding world of Harry Potter, even ...

While literacy rates have varied greatly around the world and throughout time, using the written word to share ideas and ...

A rupee note displaying multiple scripts, culinary traditions revolving around personal choice, and a piece of unstitched ...

That phrase comes in second on the 2025 list, which just “dropped” (no. 4). Crowning the common offenders at no. 1 is “cringe ...

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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Maggie Rowe and Emily Garcés, the hosts of the podcast "50 Words for Snow," about words English ...

Akhil Katyal talks about ways of grieving, the tricks of translation, and the quest for possible worlds in his new volume of ...

Christmas: a good time to broach a topic of hope. We’re talking Esperanto. This language that spurred the hope it one day could hack the barriers between people, eliminating war and ...

English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a ...

A frequent pattern in Sanei’s art is the manipulation of language. Written, spoken, muted, erased – the script assumes a multiplicity of disguises. In the series singularly named Word/ Meaning ...

Experimenting with different genres and grammar conventions allows students to see why we follow certain rules—and which ones they can break.