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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 ...

IN 1789, Noah Webster declared ‘the pure English pronunciation in Great Britain and New England’ to be ‘exactly the same in both.’ Ever since that time those who undertake the difficult task of ...

Now that President Trump has signed an executive order to close the Department of Education, it may be hard to muster concern about his effort to make English the official language of the United ...

Mr. Perlin, a co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, has been researching linguistic diversity and language endangerment since 2006. He is the author of “Language City: The Fight to Preserve ...

Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...

During the nineteenth century, the growth of anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe sparked a movement of Jewish emigration; between 1877 and 1917, around 2.5 million Jews reached the shores of America, ...