Grammarians love to grumble about texting and social media, convinced that every “u” instead of “you,” every “tho” or “luv,” is another nail in the coffin of the English language. Some say that ...

Doctors say that human language allows people to learn new words for things we’ve never witnessed directly. The post Study ...

Elementary students learn to navigate dictionaries with confidence while having fun learning new words through these games.

Human language allows us to learn new words for things we've never witnessed directly. We do this seamlessly, for example, in ...

Hunting the origin of 40 per cent of the languages spoken today is a huge feat, but Laura Spinney's new book makes an ...