There is no better guide to the folk and traditional strains of dialect specific to the United States than the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE). More than 70 years of oral and written ...

Mathews Memorial Library visited Mathews Elementary School on Oct. 15, again handing out personal dictionaries to third grade ...

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.

Reproductive rights measures are on the ballots in 10 states after heated debates over terminology and impact — and that’s ...

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 ...

A new garden can show how an unsightly spot can be transformed into something beautiful as my farmer and I are noticing this year.

Laura Fish Somersal, a local Indigenous woman known to be the last fluent Wappo speaker, will become the first woman, person ...

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 ...