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Speaking a second language forces you to be kinder to others and to yourself. Growing up, the dichotomy between school and home was marked by English and Cantonese. It was crazy to see monolingual friends stay the same person when…

FEBRUARY 21 has been celebrated worldwide as…

Recent research has found that young adults who consider themselves multilingual tend to do better in a wide range of school subjects, whether or not they speak another language. The study was published in the 'Journal of Language,…

NNA | Update: January 13, 2022 1:09 p.m. STI Cambridge Jan 13 (ANI): New research has found that young adults who…

Q. The Union government has appointed you as the head of the high level committee for the promotion of Indian languages. How do you see this evolution?A: Education, language and culture cannot be separated. They are intimately linked.…

Enter the double talk kindergarten to Aguilar Primary School, you will notice that it is slightly different from ordinary learning spaces - instead of one classroom, two classrooms are connected by a door in the middle. While this…

Young people who consider themselves "multilingual" tend to perform better in a wide range of subjects at school, whether or not they speak another language, according to a new study. The study, of over 800 pupils in England, found a…

Young people who consider themselves "multilingual" tend to perform better in a wide range of subjects at school, whether or not they speak another language, according to a new study. The study, of…

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (Inside INdiana Business) - The Lilly Library on the Bloomington Campus of Indiana University created the Merriam-Webster Archives. The university says the archive was created from business…

(photo courtesy of Kristen Wilkins / Lilly Library) The Lilly Library on the Bloomington Campus of Indiana University created the Merriam-Webster Archives. The university says the…

Saturday is National Dictionary Day and what better way to celebrate than to learn some facts about the reference book? The United States celebrates National Dictionary Day on October 16 each year in honor of the birthday of Noah Webster,…

CHANGE OF USE: Adoption of Korean words into English shows how lexical innovation is no longer confined to UK and US,…

Ghost words have nothing to do with apparitions from another world, but they are enough to frighten lexicographers. Invented by the philologist Walter william skeat in 1886, ghost words were often the…

One of the sweetest pleasures in life is finding an old love. I'm currently enjoying the rebirth of one of those romances, with a well-dressed Oxford charmer whose linguistic brilliance reduces me to a cheerful idiot. I now know what a…

G. Hemantha Kumar, vice-chancellor of the University of Mysore (UoM), said on Monday that the indigenous languages ​​of Karnataka must be preserved so that a significant part of the state's heritage is…

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A word that was coined in central New York was added to the dictionary - for Words With Friends, that is.Mobile game company Zynga, Inc., announced Monday that it has added "orbisculate" to the in-game dictionary for its popular word game,…

SAN FRANCISCO - (COMMERCIAL THREAD)--Today, Zynga Inc. (Nasdaq: ZNGA), a global leader in interactive entertainment, announced that it has officially added the word "orbisculate" to the in-game dictionary of its hit mobile game,…

The teacher: a neat, graying beard, clear eyes, a loving, determined husband and father. The doctor: shaggy beard; often crazy eyes; plagued by terrible memories, hallucinations and guilt. The two men's parallel stories -…

The Yorùbá Academy Board of Trustees and Management Committee announced the appointment of Kọ́lá…

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Teighteenth-century popular lexicographer Nathaniel Bailey struggled with certain definitions. When it came to "spider", he got on with it, with "a well-known insect". Mind you, he had already dug through his reference file and told us…

By Anatoly Liberman When the title of a scientific article contains a general question (i.e. a question beginning with a verb), the author's answer is almost always "no" "Will people ever speak one language ? (No, they won't).…

Ammon Shea recently spent a year of his life reading the OED from start to finish. Over the next few months, he will be posting weekly blogs on the ideas, gems, and language reflections that come from them. experience. His book,…