Humpback Whales Sing the Way Humans Speak
The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...
Ancient DNA Points to Origins of Indo-European Language
A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...
Why ‘Run’ Is The Most Complex Word in the English Language
This pithy word may only be three letters long, but it's deceptively complex. According to one lexicographer, it has 645 ...
Language expert shares seven words that are actually acronyms
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there are approximately 170,000 in the English language and a further 47,000 that ...
When language and culture collide
In recent years, periodic updates of the Oxford English Dictionary have added many Korean-language words, albeit romanized, ...
Pip Williams on The Dictionary of Lost Words, nuances of language, and her novel's journey to Reese Witherspoon’s book club
Why is it that a word that you feel so viscerally, doesn’t really exist in the dictionary? Our world is overflowing with ...