This year marks the English novelist's 250th birthday. Her hundreds of surviving letters—both real and fictional—offer ...

Some of the oldest English alphabets ever documented feature the ampersand symbol, typically at the end of the alphabet after ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence ...

Michael Stinziano is Franklin County auditor. Re "Property taxes based on home value," Oct. 8: I appreciate Thomas Severns’ concern about rising property taxes but let’s put the blame where it lies: a ...

After the shooting of Charlie Kirk, I sat beside my father, a pastor, as we watched the news unfold. I turned to him and asked, almost in disbelief, “How did we get here?” Somewhere along the way, we ...

In 1940, St. Clair McKelway typed a memo to William Shawn, The New Yorker’s managing editor for fact. McKelway was writing a six-part Profile of Walter Winchell for the magazine, and he was unhappy ...

Pranam Chatterjee, PhD, assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), emphasizes that text is all you need for artificial intelligence (AI) models to effectively ...

Here is another idea about how language arose. As pitch-based communication is widespread among non-human animals, could language have developed from similar-pitched Tarzan-like calls specific to a ...

A rumor that Liberian President Joseph Boakai wrote an open letter to the people of the U.S. offering to teach English to President Donald Trump circulated online in mid-2025. For example, the text ...

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Bookmark this story if you frequently play Wordle. It includes a ranking of the most commonly used letters in the English language. How about that Wordle puzzle on May 29? The five-letter answer in ...

To the editor: Columnist Gustavo Arellano proclaims that language proficiency in truck drivers doesn’t affect safety (“Trump is wrong. My dad was a trucker, and he didn’t need much English to do his ...