A recent post on the website HopesandFears.com features an article that examines how new Internet-based turns of phrase are entering the sign language community. The…
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In an interview on the website Grammarist, Lisa McLendon, also known as Madam Grammar, says: “If you know a little bit about linguistics and grammar,…
OxfordDictionaries.com has announced their new quarterly vocabulary additions. Many of the new words, which include adorbs, binge-watch, hot mess, pharmacovigilance, and subtweet, come from popular…
By Lisa Selby-Brood If you start to study Latin, you will learn the words – like any other language — and you’ll learn lots of…
The finals for the 2014 Scripps National Spelling Bee were held May 29, in National Harbor, Maryland. Ansun Sujoe, 13, from Bethesda Christian School in…
The Guardian recently ran a story highlighting how errors in pronunciation can slowly change the English language. The article points out that despite the 171,476…
Everybody loves a good Cinderella story, right? I pointedly say a Cinderella story because, in fact, there are hundreds of variations on the Cinderella theme…