The King opened his speech to Congress in Washington this week with a joke about the subtle yet important difference between ...

America declared independence from British rule in 1776, so why are we still speaking “English” in 2026? As the nation’s 250th birthday approaches, President Donald Trump and Congress can leave a ...

In the musical My Fair Lady, snooty dialectician Henry Higgins searches in vain for “purity” of expression in English; he winces at the Scots and the Irish, shudders at the Cockney London accent. His ...

A team of linguists based in northern Arizona and in the United Kingdom need Arkansans' help in a massive undertaking. The linguists are putting together a corpus, or a large sample of natural ...