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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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In a previous language column, I described some ways in which grammatical and spelling conventions that are typically ...

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Cherokee is Dennis Sixkiller’s first spoken language, but it wasn’t until the early 2000s that he learned to read and write ...

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 ...