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Beyoncé is one of several new words in French dictionary
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoIn its 2025 edition, the French encyclopedic dictionary Larousse highlights stars like Beyoncé and...
UWSP students, professor create 'refugee dictionary' to help families overcome language barrier
Stevens Point Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSTEVENS POINT – When a friend posted on social media this spring that they would soon be hosting a...
Engaged reading practice fuels a child’s development. Here are some tips to get started.
Idaho Capital Sun via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoReading opens doors to knowledge, imagination and lifelong learning. However, not all children find...
Virginia Beavert, Who Preserved a Language the U.S. Tried to Erase, Dies at 102
The Wall Street Journal· 2 months agoA linguist from the Yakama Nation, she wrote dictionaries and helped build the infrastructure to...
The Surprising Reason Europe Came Together Against Putin
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA major advance in translation technology means that Ukrainians can inform and debunk in real time. The world hasn’t seen a weapon quite like it before.
The Italian government wants to ban foreign words, just like the fascists did in 1923
Quartz via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoThe way history is repeating itself in Italy is a bit on the nose as of late, with the current...
It’s the Ides of March! What’s an Ide, anyway?
WHTM via Yahoo News· 2 months agoROME/LONDON (WHTM) — If it wasn’t for William Shakespeare, most of us wouldn’t know what an Ide was. In Act One, scene two of his play Julius Caesar,...
Banned baby names from around the world, from Lucifer to Nutella
Yahoo Life UK· 1 year agoWhen picking a baby name you might think you can chose anything – but that's not the case. (Getty...
35 Funny Names for the Toilet—Including the Loo, Dunny & Bog
Parade via AOL· 6 months agoToilet in a bathroom When you've gotta go, you've gotta go. But what do you call the destination?...
Kiswahili: how a standard version of the east African language was formed – and spread across the...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJasmin Merdan/Getty ImagesKiswahili originated in east Africa, spreading around the continent and...