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Will The Oxford Dictionary Of African American English Help Address Language Appropriation?
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA new project will finally acknowledge that AAVE isn't just slang. AlthoughAfricanAmerican...
Dictionary.com adds over 300 new words: Here's what deadass, hellscape and petfluencer mean
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWe have some new words to describe our hellscape. Dictionary.com added more than 300 new words...
Computer modeling is tracing the hidden evolution of sign languages
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIn tracing signed vocabularies’ evolutions, researchers applied phylogenetic analysis typically...
Crow Nation Celebrates Culture, Language As New Dictionary Is Published
The 74 via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA drum circle sang songs of victory. A smudging ceremony wiped away the tears. And Crow tribal...
African American English, Black ASL are stigmatized. Experts say they deserve recognition
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 month agoFor as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In...
'These are the things that make us Indigenous' | Revitalizing the Yavapai-Apache Languages
Native News Online via Yahoo News· 5 months agoGrowing up, Gertrude Smith (Yavapai-Apache) was shamed for trying to learn her language. For the...
Nearly 700 New Words Were Just Added to the Dictionary—Here Are All the Ones Related to Food
Parade via AOL· 6 months agoEvery year, lexicographers at Merriam-Webster add new words to their esteemed tome, keeping a...
10 surprising words that have been added to the dictionary this year
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA stack of dictionaries.WIN-Initiative/Neleman via Getty Images The Oxford English Dictionary and...
D'oh! Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year Caused Wordle Players a Lot of Frustration
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCambridge Dictionary has revealed its word of the year. Ready for it? It’s “Homer,” stemming from...
Virginia Beavert, Who Preserved a Language the U.S. Tried to Erase, Dies at 102
The Wall Street Journal· 1 month agoA linguist from the Yakama Nation, she wrote dictionaries and helped build the infrastructure to...