The Russian language is losing its expressiveness due to the abundance of parasitic words, jargonisms and borrowings, which are increasingly being used inappropriately and automatically. This was ...

It's among the top 10 words on the 50th annual "Banished Words List" that Lake Superior State University released this week.

Mark Wallace, the owner of the Rex Bar in Belfast’s Shankill Road, knows just two phrases in Irish. The first is “Shankill” – ...

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We’re on a quest to track down the origins of phrases here at Mental Floss. And when an origin perfectly explains some strange figure of speech, it feels extremely satisfying. For example, “pushing ...

The Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House press briefings “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to ...

The White House is making an unusual argument as it resists advocates’ push for sign language interpretation at press briefings conducted by President Donald Trump and press secretary Karoline Leavitt ...

The English language is bursting with colorful expressions that come from strange and surprising places. Many of them once had literal meanings that the general public has long since forgotten. This ...

A child can recognize scammers by using standard phrases. This was announced on November 29 in the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The agency's message, ...

A federal judge ordered the White House Tuesday to immediately provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation at all press briefings conducted by President Trump or press secretary Karoline ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

Scéal.ie, launching today, Thursday, October 30, unveils a renewed identity, a modern design, and expanded features to make information about the Irish language more accessible to everyone. After more ...