Language learning: Babies and sound perception
Infants's ability to distinguish sounds diminish as they learn their native languages(32)
Names in translation: Another cock-up
Another high-profile nomenclature embarrassment(26)
Announcements: Posting slowdown
A housekeeping note(26)
Foreign languages and thinking: Oprima dos for better cognition
A study finds that subjects make more rational choices when tested in a foreign language(89)
Business English: Useful, yes. But mandatory?
English should be encouraged, not forced, upon employees of multinational companies(82)
Rhyming slang: Obscure by design
Ads in Cockney argot miss the fact that it's supposed to be confusing(20)
Serious business: Breaking out the big puns
Playing with words and sounds gave us alphabets, and is a delightfully democratic bit of humour(20)
Journalese: A strange English dialect
A foreigner makes clear to our correspondent how hard it is to read English journalism, as opposed to plain English(41)
Which tongues work best for microblogs?(35)
Swearing and slang through the ages: The word on the street
An old dictionary of vulgar slang is less out of date than it seems(3)
Modern languages: Mother tongue
The latest push to prevent the British becoming ever more monolingual(27)
Dictionaries: The arch-archivist
The world's greatest collector of dictionaries(23)
Weights and measures: Imperial language, please
Good old English expressions under threat from the metric system(47)
Immigrants in Belize: A Spanish accent
How foreigners are transforming a small English-speaking country(55)
Names: What's wrong with the "Democrat Party"
It's not ungrammatical. It's discourteous(47)
Daily chart: Speaking in tongues
Language diversity around the world(334)
The history of recording: The earliest recorded sounds
The voices of 1885 are being heard for the first time in the modern era(10)
German dialects: Teenagers’ argot
Purists may disapprove, but multi-ethnic dialects are spreading(96)
Language attitudes: No words for individual rights
Reversing cause and effect to show that English enlightens Indians(33)
Spanish in America: Enough English for public office?
What can be learned from the case of the Arizona woman who doesn't speak English well enough to run for city council?(98)
French parents: Non, non and non
Discipline and three-course meals(70)
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