Linguists use language everyday to solve crimes. Let’s take a look the most famous ones! The fact that we all have our own unique way of speaking is a beautiful thing. It's at the core of personal ...

Damn, the English language. I’ve heard – though, I’m no linguist – that English is one of the most difficult languages to learn, or, for that matter, to write. We struggle with it on a daily basis at ...

I’ve sometimes idly wondered why so many people feel so strongly about grammar and the particular ways we write and speak. Think of the Twitter wars over the Oxford comma and Facebook arguments over ...

It’s an odd thing to be part of a national end-of-year phenomenon, but I was, for almost a decade: I was one of the editors involved in choosing and publicizing Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year. For ...

A group of volunteers is attempting to bring the language of Latin back to the masses, by offering translated captions of Nasa’s photos of Mars in the wording favored by historians, posh people and ...