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English is not an easy language to learn. Not only do you have to contend with compound expressions (like “make out” or “turn up”), but you must understand expressions that barely seem tethered to ...

I didn’t mean to watch this entire thing, but dammit if I didn’t sit through all ten minutes (alright, technically 11 minutes and 20 seconds) of this fantastically witty, animated history of the ...

A likely common ancestor of Indo-European languages, including English and Sanskrit, may have been spoken about 8,100 years ago, a new analysis suggests. The research, according to scientists, ...

English Language Day 2025 is observed on April 23, a date chosen to honour both the birth and death anniversary of the legendary playwright and poet William Shakespeare, who is widely regarded as one ...

Slang’s literary origins are widespread and ever-expanding. Its social roots, however, are narrow and focused: the city. If, as has been suggested, the story of standard English is that of a London ...

This research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in the form a Tier I Canada Research Chair and several standard research grants. University of Ottawa ...

ALTHOUGH there is considerable variety in the of measures of length used by the different nations of the world, there can be no doubt that they are, for the most part, derived from a common origin, ...

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