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 ...

Cognates - words that sound similar in different languages - can be very helpful when learning another lingo. But sometimes they can turn out to be 'false friends' and mean something completely ...

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 ...

The Reading Teacher, Vol. 54, No. 8, Embracing Pluralism Worldwide, Part 2: Classrooms in the U.S. (May, 2001), pp. 744-746 (3 pages) ...

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 ...

We are more connected than you think. Seven families of languages across the Eurasian continent, containing tongues as diverse as modern Inuit, Tamil, Japanese, Greek and Hungarian, evolved from a ...

Words in common use betray the language of our past Modern Indo-European languages - which include English - originated in Turkey about 9,000 years ago, researchers say. Their findings differ from ...

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