British accents can vary hugely — and face positive or negative stereotypes. Listen to these five British accents and see if you can hear the difference.

In our ASL translation, Jacob, who was hairless and smooth-skinned, has a name sign that can be back-translated literally to English as “smooth arm skin,” whereas his twin, Esau, who was notoriously ...

If you want to feel old, try explaining how we used to watch TV to a 10-year-old. “In days of yore, you couldn’t skip the ...

Does it bother anyone else that the word “subtle” has a silent “b?” Is it ironic that the word subtle means “understated?” ...

Sarah Brownsword, the educator behind the question, put the debate down to the fact that "people love to talk about and argue ...

As a scholar of real-world languages, J. R. R. Tolkien created a rich linguistic tapestry of over a dozen languages for his ...

These archaic policies don’t just hold us back. They seem to drag the whole country kicking and screaming into the past. Take, for instance, the plight of a young woman from the Alubomulla area. Last ...

English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a result. On TikTok, Every Migrant Is Living the American Dream Many ...

In Unbabel’s test, human and machine translators were asked to translate everything from casual text messages to dense legal contracts and the archaic English of an old translation of ...

Similarities observed in both modern and archaic human genomes suggest many hallmarks of the Homo sapiens genetic landscape arose before the lineages split. Homo sapiens evolved through a series ...