The King opened his speech to Congress in Washington this week with a joke about the subtle yet important difference between ...

Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) has a great idea. He thinks that English should be America’s official language and has introduced a bill in the House to make it so. Twenty-seven states have already ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration has hopefully just learned an important lesson: the strategic importance of Voice of America’s foreign ...

I. The two streams of English. The earliest alarms -- The English attack -- American "barbarisms" -- The English attitude today -- The position of the learned -- The views of writing men -- The ...

The story of American English is how the nation’s different groups have made the language their own — but it’s also about the way it connects Americans. The latest book by the Mexican American author ...

No, here they are. . . . Last night I had the lecturer’s vocational nightmare: I dreamed that I had lost my notes. Since this is a series of lectures concerning American characteristics, I must be ...

Columnist, author, and linguist Richard Lederer spent about six months writing his latest book, “American History for Everyone.” That was a lot longer than it’s typically taken him to write his dozens ...

Let's talk about back to school foreign language edition. We have Spanish French Latin. But what about American sign language? Well, starting this year, Mississippi schools will be able to offer this ...