After more than a century of silence, the Bunurong language is being brought back to life by elders, linguists and community.

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Dr. Anastasia Riehl is leading the effort to craft the first new Canadian English dictionary in decades, an update that ...

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Maria Cassano, a professional editor, offers some free advice to instantly improve your resume and hirability.

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Iowa State researchers are studying how we use anthropomorphizing language – or words that give human traits to non-human things – when writing about artificial intelligence. Their findings, the ...

A sixth-grader won her school’s spelling bee just five years after moving to Mesa from the Philippines and learning English.

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Richard E. Maltby Jr. on his fifty years of writing puzzles for Harper’s Magazine, his side hustle as a musical lyricist and Tony Award–winning director, and the crossword’s place in contemporary Amer ...