In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

With over 1.5 billion speakers across the globe, English holds the title of the world’s most widely spoken language. While only about 373-400 million are native speakers, the majority use it as a ...

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

The team were particularly interested in looking into the concept of "snow" given the often exaggerated idea about the Inuit language.

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

A plan to phase out English-medium schools in Gwynedd "doesn't go far enough," councillors have said. Cyngor Gwynedd plans to make Welsh the principal language of education in every school it ...

While Indian languages have fascinated Western scholars for centuries, World War Two marked a tuning point, when American Universities started launching large programs for the study of Hindi, Sanskrit ...

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