First grader Aizlynn Castillo works on an assignment in Diana Oviedo-Holguin’s English-learner class at Heritage Elementary ...
One important rule of writing, one I too often break, is to choose words carefully with the intended audience in mind. For ...
Over 300,000 people searched for help pronouncing "gyro" alone, while that fancy meat and cheese board "charcuterie" continues to trip up dinner party hosts nationwide.
"Mischief night," "cabbage night," "goosey night," or "devil’s eve": Why are there so many words for the eve of Halloween—and ...
"67" is an ambiguous slang term made popular by Gen Alpha on social media and in middle schools across the country.
The inspiration for Dr. David Dosa’s Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat, this cat possessed ...
"Neurodivergent" is not just a way to describe medical diagnoses like autism and ADHD. It encompasses a range of ways in ...
The use of artificial intelligence is leading to a flattening of our language that is evident in the emails we write and the texts we compose. Studies have already confirmed this. Robotic verbiage ...
Roger was one of the first words for "R" in early aviation phonetic alphabets and came to mean "message received." ...
As a Frenchwoman who has lived in Australia, I’ve noticed it’s often the same French words that give English speakers the ...
The colorful halls of the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts were filled with the sound of languages from around the world Thursday in San Francisco as human rights activists gathered to ...
Text readability encompasses two aspects, namely, ease of comprehension and ease of processing (in relation to the effort ...