For most students, competing against the dictionary sounds like a nightmare. For Phoenix Newell, an eighth-grader at the ...

Putin’s dictionary certainly promotes traditional family values. The definition of the word “hatred” gives the example usage “hatred of the institution of the family,” while the word “heroine” is ...

The report blamed people smugglers and “systemic failure” on the part of the authorities after about 30 people drowned as ...

If you watch American cooking shows, you've likely experienced "salad confusion." You see a chef preparing what looks like ...

Beacon Journal readers ask about the origin of common sayings such as ‘getting off scot-free’ and ‘a chip off the old block.’ ...

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

Confused by Quebec’s tougher French rules, health-care workers are avoiding English, threatening access to care for anglophone Quebecers, the federal language commissioner says. “The strengthening of ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence ...

In 2018, Chair of the Department of French and Francophone Studies Virginia Krause launched FREN 1410T: “L’expérience des réfugiés: déplacements, migrations” in response to the politicization of ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

If you’ve ever studied abroad, or even just daydreamed about taking a vacation to a foreign land, you know that learning the language comes with the territory. Belly’s Parisian adventures in The ...

Abraham Elmaleh, eminent lexicographer, has just completed the first complete Hebrew-French dictionary, carefully prepared and attractively printed in a portable format. This small dictionary is to be ...