Ahead, you’ll learn why he had it out for the u in color, and why the word is spelled differently in British and American ...

Spelling bees are a century-old tradition. What’s now known as the Scripps National Spelling Bee was spearheaded by The Courier Journal 100 years ago.

Elevator” is the first American Sign Language (ASL) word that Lu Ming, G-’25, learned at Gallaudet. On her first day as a new ...

The Rhode Island accent, as we know it, may be headed for extinction. While it’s still a reliable feature of the local ...

“The Golden Bowl” is about two couples. One is made up of an Italian prince who marries an American woman named Maggie, the ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Wednesday in a precedential decision affirmed a Trademark Trial ...

My son was born in California but is learning to speak in Western North Carolina, which is why he says "durt" instead of dirt, says "dawguh" instead of dog, and — somehow, in a way I've yet to ...

The Michigan accent, part of the Inland North accent, is part of American English. Here are how some words sound in the ...

The pronunciation of “Qatar” is a no-brainer for Arabic speakers and speakers of similar languages. But it’s one tricky ...

So how did that happen—and exactly where did the American accent come from? Before we dive into why American and British accents sound so different, it would help to know what an accent actually ...

It turns out that many everyday English words and phrases mean ... While actually an American term, us Brits widely use the word ‘cookie’ to refer to our biscuits. But if you’re offering ...

“Suppose you travel to South Africa and you notice practices that are not American and the word used for those practices are local, you have no choice but to use those words too in English ...