Simply mention them and you will see faces screw up, shoulders stiffen and a ripple of revulsion spread through the room. SEE ...

Malaysia’s colourful English stepped into the global linguistic spotlight after words like “alamak” and “tapau” found a home ...

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

Since Angle and Saxon tribes brought their West Germanic dialect to Briton more than 1,500 years ago, and Old English was born, English has been a flexible, dynamic language — ...

Casagrande tackles the varied pronunciations of words that are considered accurate by linguists because, even if they sound ...

In Buffalo's bilingual schools, should time for extra academic help be given in English or Spanish? Bilingual Center 33 ...

Do you use the word “very” when speaking or writing? Your message will be much more compelling, and likely more meaningful, if you reduce or eliminate that one word. That advice comes from the team at ...

"She jokes that she wrote me into being," says Marjan Neshat of English playwright Sanaz Toossi. The pair frequently refer to ...

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

Turning to my girlfriend, Iara, I said out loud, ‘Ich liebe dich’. I didn’t even know the English translation – I just ...

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 ...

President Trump has repeatedly called tariffs "the most beautiful word in the dictionary." NPR's Word of the Week explores ...