Dictionary Day on October 16 celebrates the birth of Noah Webster, an American writer who was born in 1758. Webster is best-known for publishing the first dictionary in 1806, which he continued to ...
Pop-up Hong Kong tea restaurant, or 'cha chaan teng', at art fair exposes the Cantonese term and bolsters the case for ...
Zee instead of S, napkins instead of serviettes, trunks, bangs and take-out: Socio-linguist Dr Julia de Bres talks Americanisms, and why we love to hate them.
Mathews Memorial Library visited Mathews Elementary School on Oct. 15, again handing out personal dictionaries to third grade ...
Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English. By Ben Yagoda. Princeton University Press; 288 pages; $24.95 and £20 British intellectuals enjoy bewailing the influx of Americanisms into ...
Reproductive rights measures are on the ballots in 10 states after heated debates over terminology and impact — and that’s ...
Former President Donald Trump waxed poetic about his love for tariffs — including his love for the word itself.
Mx Oops and Xavier (The Anthropophagic Effect), edition 1/3, 2019, digital print, 30 1/4 x 44 7/8 in. Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. (Image: Aaron Wessling Photography, courtesy ...
When his microphone when silent, Trump paced around the stage while the audience did the wave and chanted "fight, fight, ...
Washington delivers a rousing speech, promising that they will survive because they “fight to control our own destiny, to create our own nation, and to do our own thing with the English language.” ...
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YEREVAN—The family of veteran Armenian-American writer and editor “Uncle Garabed” has donated a diverse collection of ...