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10 Words Added To First Oxford Dictionary Of African American English
VIBE via Yahoo News· 12 months agoA first-of-its-kind dictionary is coming to the world that’s comprised of words created, defined,...
New online Wolastoqey language dictionary a family affair
CBC via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA Wolastoqew family in New Brunswick has lent their voices to an online dictionary where viewers can...
Mystery solved: How to pronounce 'Qatar,' the World Cup host whose name everybody says wrong
Yahoo Sports via AOL· 2 years ago(Graphic by Michael Wagstaffe) [World Cup: Viewer's guide | Group previews | Top 30 players | Power...
'Star Wars' has changed the English language. Here's how
Space via Yahoo News· 6 months agoStar Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back_LucasFilm. The "Star Wars" entertainment juggernaut...
Names for everything: 12 countries represented at language conference at IU
The Herald-Times via Yahoo News· 7 months agoSeveral hundred people representing 40 languages in 12 countries participated in the first...
AI programs often exclude African languages. These researchers have a plan to fix that.
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAfrican languages are severely underrepresented in services like Alexa, Siri, and ChatGPT. There are...
11 Language Books That Won’t Bore You
BuzzFeed News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBuzzFeed News The BuzzFeed copy desk is obviously obsessed with all things grammar, style, and editing. Here are some of our favorite books on language....
Alaska Native linguists create a digital Inupiaq dictionary, combining technology, accessibility and...
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAug. 22—Edna Ahgeak MacLean, linguist, Inupiaq language app UTQIAĠVIK — Edna Ahgeak Paniattaaq MacLean smiled when her granddaughter Sirroun carried a thick tome with two hands and put it carefully ...
17 Things Americans Say That Non-Americans Hate
HuffPost Life via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThere are 171,476 words in current use in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. If you’re learning English for the first...
The Things We Can't Say
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIllustration: Lex Villena; Yuliaglam An obscure webpage that Stanford University had quietly published seven months earlier made a huge splash in late...
