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

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The UK’s primary language is of course English, and has been for many hundreds of years. The tongue has evolved as many ...

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