More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

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Grammar expert June Casagrande tackles the use of hyphens with a close look at eight multiword terms that writers sometimes get wrong.

Politics has become a competition as to who can toss the most F-bombs.

The explosion of novels about intense female friendships, in the Elena Ferrante mold, is changing the genre—and making it ...

Google Translate has always been a useful app for travelers abroad, but it has also rolled out a few improvements that people ...

There’s a rubric I’ve been using to maintain perspective on President Donald Trump’s second term: Imagine if the dumbest person in the world and humanity’s biggest asshole ...

The Bundesliga Tax'. It's a phrase that has become more prominent amongst supporters over the past decade or so, used to ...

Critics of Israel intentionally using language that borders on antisemitism, charges János Bóka, who also serves as ...

When a word that literally means “vegetables” becomes the subject of a legal dispute, you start to wonder whether Britain’s ...