The root words of snake and serpent mean 'a creeping thing'. Most snake sayings are negative, including a Singlish loan ...

AS non-native English speakers, a crucial step in effectively speaking English or any secondary language for that matter, is ...

Back in the days of yore, language translation ... only translated around 250 words using six grammar rules — mostly brief statements in Russian about science, law and military affairs that were ...

Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language ... “Tariff” fits snugly into this tradition. Sicilian sources started using the word “tariffa” for import taxes in the 14th ...

Another pleasing sound in the English language ... if you'd like to try to bring it back into the general lexicon. Here are some more fun almost-extinct words that we think people should start ...

For the students in Sanaz Toossi’s dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world’s lingua franca is not exactly ...

CHENNAI: Even Tamil teachers in the state might be taken aback if we told them that the origins of the English word ‘free’ ...

One could be forgiven for thinking upon hearing the origins of the third most popular slang term for children that the world ...

The first word on our list that can’t be fully translated because it carries emotion behind it we don’t tend to pack into ...

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Morgan's Bible removed certain South Walian words in Salesbury's translation, such as caser (hail), and replaced them with ...

Data show that recent presidents especially have started their terms with unifying language. Words like "together," "us," ...