A deep dive into the creation of eight buildings from the 1700s to the 1900s tells some very human stories History used to be about wars and dates, but to the architecture writer and TV presenter Dan ...

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 ...

(SEE COVER) And now, panel, for the mystery guest. Masks in place? Good. He is salaried. He works for a profit-making organization. He deals in a product. It is smaller than a breadbox. On the side, ...

Tribal officials said the project is part of a broader effort to preserve Indigenous languages, including Cherokee, by expanding access around the world. The tribe began working with Kiwa Digital in ...

More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape It is not likely to be a hefty volume because the vast majority of the material has been lost ...

September 8, 2022 (La Mesa) – Richard Lederer, the San Diego Union-Tribune’s language columnist, best-selling language author and former usage editor for the Random House Dictionary of the English ...

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 ...

Without a blush, Publisher Bennett Cerf predicted last week that while Samuel Johnson was the great lexicog rapher of the 18th century and Noah Webster of the 19th, Random House will be the best of ...

Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...

During a meeting with the leaders of several African nations at the White House, President Donald Trump took a pause Wednesday to compliment Liberian President Joseph Boakai’s command of English.

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. I grew up in a house of books. In my family’s suburban home in the 1970s ...

President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order making English the official language of the U.S. The order revokes an executive order issued by former President Bill Clinton in 2000, ...