George Bernard Shaw once described the Americans and British as “two peoples separated by a common language,” underscoring that we are especially prone to misunderstandings when we think we are ...

Imagine that you’re flying Turkish Air. The beverage cart bumps down the aisle. A flight attendant holds up that little carafe and asks, kah-vay? You travel a lot. Now you’re flying Finnair. The ...

It must be a conspiracy – the way language tries to confuse us, that is. The plot thickens; the conspiracy gets worse. It turns out that there are look-alikes that are even trickier than false friends ...

Aug. 27 -- WEDNESDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Bilingual people are unable to completely switch off their second language, even when reading in their native language, new research suggests.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information A refereed publication, The Modern Language Journal is dedicated to promoting scholarly exchange among teachers and researchers of ...

The Studio 512 crew went live from DC Law! Since so many legal words come originally from Latin — and Latin happens to be Rosie’s undergraduate degree (who knew) — Rosie challenged Steph to see if she ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Oceania is a fully refereed, A-rated journal of social and cultural anthropology. Its regional orientation is to peoples of ...

The words used the most in everyday language are the ones evolving at the slowest rate, say two new studies published in Nature. In one paper, researchers at Harvard University focused on the ...

A particular Act in Indian law defines these two relatively unfamiliar words. * “agnate” – one person is said to be an agnate of another if the two are related by blood or adoption wholly through ...