You might feel silly saying it, but croissant is not pronounced "KROY-sant," "cross-ANT," or "KRUH-sant" it's pronounced "kwah-SAHNT." ...

Pidgin evolved at the height of the slave trade in the 1700s and 1800s, to enable the buying and selling of millions of human ...

One hesitation I hear time and time again when I talk to people about traveling is, “But I don’t speak the language.” To be ...

Unlike nouns and verbs, pronouns usually evolve glacially. Anglophones have been using their tidy little set for centuries. But change is not impossible. In Sweden “hen”, a gender-neutral pronoun, ...

By watching videos and playing by ear, he taught himself three Chinese instruments.   Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

These were some of the words and phrases I used in a column responding to Sean Miller ditching Xavier for Texas. It ticked me ...