The English language is a treasure trove of words that not only sound beautiful but also convey complex, nuanced meanings.

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Languages may shape thought, as seen with untranslatable words like shibui and hygge. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis suggests languages "index" cultural patterns, with a stronger "linguistic determinism" ...

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Lots of people find jargon annoying. Is it useful in the workplace? Pippa and Phil talk about when to use jargon and when to avoid it, with help from journalist Anna Maloney, Anne Curzan from the ...

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Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining ...

Oxford’s language experts, who are the brains behind the Oxford English Dictionary, defined rage bait as “online content ...

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Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...