Noah Webster, creator of "An American Dictionary of the English Language" (1828) led the charge. It was Webster who removed ...

In the U.S. and elsewhere, nationality tends to be defined by a set of legal parameters. This may involve birthplace, ...

The deaf community was plagued by racial segregation, so Black Americans decided to create their own rendition of the ...

Researchers are working to preserve Black languages like African American English and Black American Sign Language and reduce stigma around them.

American Sign Language (ASL) is a type of sign language typically used by deaf or hard-of-hearing people in the United States and Canada. It’s a separate language from English, with its own ...

A row of Oxford English dictionaries in a school classroom on February 11, 2022 in Cardiff, Wales. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images) Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. American ...

Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used, and now a new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English.

African American English derives from a historical past of contact between multiple language speakers. It varies across age, ethnicity, class, and gender. There is more than one AAE. | Iryna ...

Making English the only official language goes against our nation’s history and traditions. By Daniel J. Olson | Contributor March 3, 2025, at 6:47 p.m. Trump Courted Latinos in Spanish, No Más ...

K-pop songs have been riddled with English hooks since the dawn of the genre, but the final product is often slightly askew — rarely fitting into traditional molds or scanning as American pop to ...

British English uses organise, while American prefers to organize. Both are correct depending on the region, but using one consistently is important. The reason for this goes back to the 1800s.

For employment, they gave the LLMs samples of standard American English and AAE and asked the software what jobs the people who produced that language might be involved in.