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State and local offices across Washington are being directed to remove the word 'alien' from state statutes and replace it ...

Yet this is not the most pressing problem with contemporary Shakespeare staging. The biggest problem facing contemporary Shakespeare is the indifference to the playwright’s original language and ...

While structured and beautifully written prose has its place, it shouldn’t come at the cost of audience connection.

Math vocabulary alone isn’t a silver bullet—but research shows it’s linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.

The English language is full of surprises, and some of its most fascinating ones come in the form of words so long they look impossible to pronounce. While most of us stick to simple, everyday vocab, ...

The concept of the “final blow” has been absent from strategic discourse for far too long.The post Without apology: The righteousness of the cause and the meaning of victory appeared ...

Patrick E. Savage is a musicologist at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and at Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan. He is the author of Comparative Musicology (2026). As ...

The rapid growth (and partial retreat) of “they” and “them” has gotten a lot of attention in recent years, but English is hardly the only language that has been experimenting with a gender-neutral ...

Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) can be difficult to diagnose, despite the condition being more prevalent than autism spectrum disorder, representing roughly 7.5% of 5-year-olds in ...

Stephen Colbert came to the defense of an auto worker who called Donald Trump a “pedophile protector,” praising the man for using “precise language.” During Wednesday’s monologue for “The Late Show,” ...