A student living in Londonderry, who moved to Northern Ireland during the war in Ukraine, has been awarded a top prize for ...

British English spelling, commonly referred to as UK spelling, is not merely a stylistic preference but an integral aspect of linguistic identity, historical ...

Linguistic charm meets live entertainment as Countdown’s Susie Dent brings her show Word Perfect to Darlington Hippodrome.

The potential benefits of deploying large language models, from their low-cost, easy-to-use accessibility to their context sensitivity about the meaning of two-word phrases, cannot be ignored. In the ...

Words from the Dictionary of American Regional English After half a century of studying jib-jabbing, linguists have just finished the nation’s most ambitious dictionary of regional dialects ...

Long before Noah Webster completed his 1828 magnum opus, “An American Dictionary of the English Language,” he published a wildly successful primer called “A Grammatical Institute of the ...

MADISON, Wis. -— Order a sloppy Joe in North or South Dakota, and the waiter may give you a blank stare. The popular beef-on-a-bun sandwich is known to some there ...

It so happens that American Sign Language is the third most prevalent language in the United States — but there are vastly fewer AI tools developed with ASL data than data representing the ...

Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s meant to ...

In 2005, for example, the New Oxford American Dictionary chose “podcast” – right before the programming format exploded in popularity. More commonly, the celebrated neologisms don’t age well.

Words that reflect the zeitgeist: 2024 was very online. A Year Defined By 'Brain Rot' and 'Brat' Ever since the American Dialect Society first selected a Word of the Year at its 1990 conference ...

In 2005, for example, the New Oxford American Dictionary chose “podcast” – right before the programming format exploded in popularity. More commonly, the celebrated neologisms don’t age well.