In other words, just a brief change in the way people talk can create a measurable effect, Boroditsky says. She next examined how English speakers compared with Mandarin-English bilinguals in ...

A Way With Words. By . ... LONDON -- Noah Webster published his great and scholarly "An American Dictionary of the English Language" 30 years before the Oxford English Dictionary was conceived, ...

Each Monday from 1-2 pm on North Country Public Radio, it is A Way With Words, a lively hour-long public radio show about the English language. Co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett take ...

English is an incredibly versatile and dynamic language that has evolved over centuries, absorbing and incorporating words from a vast array of other languages. This adaptability has allowed ...