UNESCO on Monday officially declared February 9 as World Greek Language Day after approving a proposal made to the UN's ...

The Writers Theatre production considers language in all its contradictions, as a vehicle for understanding and ...

I’m Irish, love my country and my culture. My father’s name is described as Normo-Celtic, my sister, older by 16 years, ...

The Spanish word for Easter is Pascua. In Italian, it’s Pasqua. French speakers have Pâques. All of these words derive from ...

There’s a reason spelling bees are only common in English-speaking countries: English spelling is absurd. Even the most ...

Hidden in the footnotes of history books, these lesser-known leaders of Greek origin held great power over numerous countries ...

The world might think the US president’s choice of words is curious, but it makes total sense when you look at the revolutionary spirit of the founding fathers, says Robert McCrum, who explains why ...

The United States, Russia and Argentina are limiting language use through their administrations, in what they describe as ...

Nicholas Ostler, in his 2005 book Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, observes that the great languages have generally been the languages of the greatest traders and, especially, ...

A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience. The Oxyrhynchus Hymn is the oldest surviving Christian hymn with musical notation — and was rewritten by ...

The former MSNBC host talks about what it took to create an outlet somewhere between mainstream news and 'burn it all down' media.

Amid a terrifying tsunami of information about nappy rash and poo-charts, the early childhood nurse said something we new ...