Damn coronavirus! How the Dutch use diseases as curse words.

Your political views can predict how you pronounce certain words

Curious Kids: Why do we say ‘OK’?

Why are so many languages spoken in some places and so few in others?

Latina Rebels turn to memes, humor to rethink media on hot-button issues

When an American says ‘sure’ to a Brit, does it mean yes or no?

Will blind people use Braille in the future?

“These are animals”: The Risks of Dehumanizing Language

How the Basque language has survived

Why we are so drawn to the letter ‘X’

Olivier Had it Wrong: Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation

How Shakespeare Came Alive for Me — and Stays Alive Today

Olivier Had It Wrong: Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation

The three-letter word that rocked a nation

A British ‘Mx.’ tape

How English-language pronouns are taught around the world

The correspondence of Jean Sibelius and his wife Aino is a bilingual love story

The science behind ‘baby talk’

One simple word defines Germans, but Germans don’t agree on what it means

‘What a total God shot!’ Understand that? Then you speak Christianese.

American soft power has helped this Kenyan man’s efforts to ensure a future for his mother tongue

The first cousin of the English language is alive and well in the Netherlands

The Standing Rock Sioux are also fighting for their language

Should kids be learning in more than one language? Californians just decided “yes.”

How do you revive a language if tribal elders don’t want you to?

How the Miami Tribe got its language back

A new generation of Canadians are learning this language, and not all of them are tribal members

A new generation of Canadians are learning this language, and not all of them are tribal members

The World in Words live: From Ainu to Zaza

In Japan, the Ainu language is largely unknown and unloved, but linguists are fascinated by its mysteries

It’s easier to get people to stop speaking a language than to take it up again. Just ask the Irish.

A tale of two linguists and the conflict that separates them

Learning English on the fly

You may not know it — but if you speak Spanish, you speak some Arabic too

Will Icelanders one day ditch their language for English?

The future of the Icelandic language may lie in its past

If you’re placing a phone call to North Korea, it may be answered on a ‘hand phone’

After a little political pressure, Lindström, Minnesota, gets its Ö back

Four things you never knew about Noah Webster, the ‘forgotten man’ of American history

Are we witnessing the death of ‘uh’? Um, maybe — and not just in English

The language apocalypse is coming, and many tongues are already all but dead

To make a real difference in some of Africa’s poorest countries, we should train more translators

The secret language of Turkey’s LGBT community

There may be languages lurking in your unconscious mind

If you want to know where your food comes from, ask a linguist

The spread of mondegreens should have ended with the Internet — but it hasn’t

What’s your choice for Word of the Year?

Seven words and phrases used by soldiers that we could all learn from

Russian curses are inventive, widely-used — and banned

You are what you eat — and how you translate the menu

A University of Kansas linguist is risking Russia’s ire in helping Kazakhstan change its writing system

The good part about leaving Russia is no longer having to apologize for its actions

India’s new leader favors the Hindi language, which is a problem for the country’s 50 million Urdu speakers

Check out the church in Britain that celebrates John Smith, Pocahontas and the expansion of the English language

English might not have become quite so popular, if a 17th-century poet had his way

English might not have become quite so popular, if a 17th-century poet had his way

Yes, Shakespeare coined words. But that’s just the start of his contribution to the English language

What’s the point of learning Russian?

A history of Hebrew, told one word at a time

Eight words and phrases that only make sense at the World Cup