Words like ”dude,” “man,” “bro,” and “brah” are popular and powerful signals of solidarity, writes Valerie Fridland.

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Open your mouth to order a coffee and you have already crossed three borders. Every English sentence is a passport thick with ...

That’s a fine choice. More than 1,000 Scholars and scribes from the Poetry Society of America have chosen the most beautiful word in the English language: diaphanous. Merriam-Webster defines ...

Before you even get to the Netherlands, you might need to learn a bit of Dutch – but passing the easiest civic exams can be as simple as ABC. Kirill Svavolia, founder of Inburgering.org and a ...

Halleh Ghorashi (63) is a professor of diversity at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she uses narrative methodology to center the perspectives of migrants and refugees. She fled Iran for the ...

The English Speller Database (ESDB) is a database of information on English words useful for creating high-quality speller dictionaries and wordlists for most dialects of English. The database ...

At times, you might not want to prevent macros, ActiveX Control, data connections, etc., from running in a Word document, Excel spreadsheet, or PowerPoint presentation. If so, you can disable or turn ...

Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, a new study found. This 'million word gap' could ...