The Guardian

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We shouldn’t worry when a word falls into obscurity. There’s usually a good reason, and a new one will always fill its place

Woman

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Parading my new hairdo in front of my daughter, Hannah, 29, I was beaming. But it wasn’t because I liked the cut, rather that I’d managed to go to the salon in Mexico and tell them exactly what I wanted, all by myself, and in Spanish. Just two years

The Guardian

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Influential people have always had the power to change language. The president’s late-night typo sent the internet crazy, but will it stick around?

Pretoria News Weekend

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EVERY year, the home of world-renowned language data, Oxford Languages, releases its word of the year. However, due to this unprecedented time, the institution has decided to select several official words of the year. The English language has undergo

Garden & Gun

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Like the fiber in okra and the pluribus in unum, some issues of singular and plural may be insoluble. But they don’t have to be divisive. The Rampart Food Store in New Orleans—known locally as “the orange store,” because it is painted bright orange o

The Atlantic

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As soon as Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy, people noted a few of his linguistic quirks, such as the extended, supervowel pronunciation of huge and the references to himself in the third person. But beyond those, the version of Engl

The Christian Science Monitor

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What makes a story, a story? For Harry Bruinius, the Monitor’s New York bureau chief, it’s the moment a person’s life changes. He has long brought this approach to his reporting, covering issues of religion, race, and even gun violence.

Forbes Africa

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IN HIS BOOK, Decolonising the Mind, Ngŭgĭ wa Thiong’o writes about the politics of language in African literature. Ngŭgĭ observes that languages serve as carriers of cultures and for communication. He also observes that languages such as English and

Writer's Digest

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“You’re an oceanographer?” The librarian shakes his head, incredulous, his spectacles tossing a circle of sunlight on the floor between us. “I always knew I wanted to be a novelist,” I reply. “So, naturally, I spent the first two decades of my adult

You South Africa

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One of my fondest childhood memories is of sitting on my dad’s lap, a Richard Scarry word book open on his knee. He’d point at the cute pictures that crowded the page and my job was to identify each object. How clever I felt! And it was such fun. Per

India Today

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Saura, Munda, Kui, Juanga-all tribal languages from Odisha-are just some of 124 languages that can be found on StoryWeaver, a treasure trove of engaging illustrated books for children. The storybooks are categorised according to reading levels, with

Scoop

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I was wondering how to begin writing this. I stared at the blank page and it stared back at me. I had so much to say, but the words didn’t seem to be to hand: perhaps the subject was just too complex. It must have been like this when my grandma first

NPR

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There are no exceptions. If a piece being prepared for broadcast has an offensive word or phrase, or involves excretory or sexual issues, care and consultation are required.

The Atlantic

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Um, guys. I have some information to share with you, and fair warning, it's, uh, going to make you scrutinize your speech for several days. You know when you're searching for a word, or trying to say something more nicely than you actually mean it, o

Woman's Own

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‘Don’t make your CV too general,’ she advises. ‘Adapt it to the job you’re applying for. If searching for a role in HR, highlight your communication and interpersonal skills. This will help you stand out to potential employers.’ ‘Employers typically

Guernica Magazine

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Communing with the author of the new short-story collection Hybrid Creatures. The post <em>In Our House, We Speak in Hybrid Tongues</em> appeared first on Guernica.

NPR

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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzlemaster Will Shortz play the puzzle this week with David Herbst of Inverness, Calif.

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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When lockdown started a few months ago, my friend Damien and I decided we’d use the time wisely and learn a new language. Almost three months later, and as restrictions lift, we’re far from bilingual, and while Damien is able to string some sentences

Literary Hub

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I stand at the window of this small apartment in the south of Romania as night falls, the night which is leading me to hold Camera lui Giovanni (Giovanni’s Room) in my hands. I started writing this piece right before James Baldwin’s second novel had

Literary Hub

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It was a bold move for a rookie player: “When your son looks at you and says, ‘Mama, look, you won. Bullies don’t win,’ and I said, ‘Baby, they don’t,’ because we’re going to go in there and we’re going to impeach the motherfucker.’” And with that, t

NPR

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In this week's puzzle, Puzzlemaster Will Shortz reveals a love of the band One Direction. Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro play with Rob Hardy of Dayton, Ohio.

Futurity

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Using the generic “you” can help make ideas resonate, research on what readers highlight indicates. Writers often use the word “you” generically to make an idea seem more universal, even though it might not be. A paper on the linguistic device appear

Saturday Star

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EVERY year, the home of world-renowned language data, Oxford Languages, releases its word of the year. However, due to this unprecedented time, the institution has decided to select several official words of the year. The English language has undergo

You South Africa

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DURING a recent conversation involving several people, one person repeatedly pronounced “vice versa” as “visa versa” and, in an effort to be polite, no one attempted to correct her. One finds too that people constantly confuse “you’re” with “your”, “

Games World of Puzzles

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In this puzzle, all of the answers are the first (or last) halves of a word or phrase made up of two identical syllables or words. For example, “Sweet treat” would be BONBON, so you would enter BON in the grid. Proper nouns are allowed. Once you dete

Literary Hub

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Me and my sister had our own language as children. I was an inventor of language—of elaborate code in my childhood diaries, rune-like and incomprehensible, and of big words, as many as you could fit into a sentence. But this language, it was between

MASK The Magazine

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Do: Use proper language, grammar, and spelling. Be explanatory. Justify your opinions. Credit ideas of others; cite and link to scholarly resources. Avoid: Misinforming others when you may not know the answer. If you are guessing about, clearly state

Games World of Puzzles

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Here’s a test of your word “marksmanship.” The answer to each of the 20 questions in the puzzle is one of the words in the bull’s-eye target. Each answer scores a “hit,” which you may cross off in the target since no answer word is used more than onc

NPR

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Saturday is the final gubernatorial election of 2019. It got us wondering why we use the term "gubernatorial" in the first place. Hint: It goes back to Latin.

Games World of Puzzles

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Below are seven messages—pithy sayings, fascinating facts, and a cartoon gag—that have been translated into simple cipher alphabets. Letter substitutions remain constant throughout any one cipher, but change from one cipher to the next; the level of