For us linguists, the flurry of "word of the year" announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as ...

Charles Darwin found inspiration for his theory of evolution in birds’ beaks, giant tortoise shells—and language. “The survival or preservation of certain favored words in the struggle for existence ...

Language is rooted in culture and even shapes our thoughts. Eloquency maybe a sign of recycling other's thought. So let's ...

The English language grows a little more every year. It becomes richer, warmer, and more diverse as people across the world ...

The English language is a treasure trove of words that not only sound beautiful but also convey complex, nuanced meanings. You may never have heard of them, let alone be able to pronounce them but ...

The South African author J.M. Coetzee, now 85 years old, is renowned for his austere, intellectually rigorous novels such as “Disgrace” (1999) and “The Childhood of Jesus” (2013), and his scrupulous ...