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 ...

In her essay, which was selected from 49 submissions from ESL instructors throughout the province, Padawer noted the difficulties many of her students face learning English in their new home country. ...

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, ...

People love talking about how they talk. That’s what Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette have learned in more than a decade hosting “A Way With Words,” an hourlong public radio show and ...

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 ...

Anglo-Irish relations have reached an all-time high with the news that a British company has won a contract for work on a new English-Irish dictionary for Foras na Gaeilge. The dictionary will be ...