ON 1 MARCH 2025, president Donald Trump made English the official language of the United States by an executive order. This ...

but the most significant influence on modern English spelling came from Noah Webster. His dictionaries standardized many spellings in American English and made the country’s dialect distinct ...

Another pleasing sound in the English language ... the name of a Greek goddess of (you guessed it) healing. Noah Webster and his all-American dictionaries that he compiled shortly after the ...

Perrotin rejigged half of its booth to present works by L.A.-based artists like Claire Tabouret, Emma Webster ... for £60,000 ($63,000), a painting by American artist Sean Landers for $45,000 ...

How fitting, then, that the only thing written on it, other than the manufacturer, is a Bible verse, “Proclaim liberty ...

“To post that in an elementary school room in old English, probably written ... appeared in a textbook published by Noah Webster which was widely used in American public schools along with ...

About half of U.S. adults (51%) say it is extremely or very important for the U.S. to make English its official language.

Across its nearly 250-year history, the United States has never had an official language until now. But Americans will not ...

When my maternal grandfather, Israel Whitman, came here from Czarist Russia, he wouldn’t allow Yiddish to be spoken in his ...