OLASUNKANMI AROWOLO Language is never neutral. In Nigeria, it has always been political, cultural and symbolic. Our journalists are not only recorders of events but also guardians of language and ...

Why do the works of Jane Austen still hold so much appeal 250 years after her birth? We ask members of the Jane Austen Society of North America as well as writers Sandra Cisneros and Brandon Taylor.

Falkirk has become a focal point in Scotland’s immigration debate, with protests outside a hotel housing asylum seekers ...

NPR's Eyder Peralta speaks with Esteban Touma, language expert from the app Babbel about 2025's most mispronounced words.

AI's frequent use of em dashes is changing how people write. Many now avoid these punctuation marks to sound more human and ...

Sometimes more is more. Fackham Hall seems, at first, like another British period film with butlers and countryside vistas ...

The other day I was at a Little Rock intersection with a sign: "No Right Turn On Red." Four drivers turned right on red while ...

According to survey data shared with USA TODAY by Teacher Tapp − which polls British educators on school-related issues to inform public policy − more than half of the 10,000 elementary school ...

Hearing about this made wonder what he’d do with F..king Apostrophes. That’s the title of a little book by British advertiser Simon Griffin (Icon, $16.99). The asterisks are mine, not the publisher’s.

We're using semicolons less and less; the apostrophe still stumps most of us. Meanwhile, @, #, :, ) have new meanings and are performing new roles. Take a look. “Semicolon usage in British English ...