The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland ...

There was nothing ordinary about the compartment of a recent second-last Churchgate-bound local train, where some commuters ...

Accents in written French aren't just weird squiggles that can be ignored - they give you vital clues on the word's ...

Less word variety A more subtle indicator of Alzheimer's disease is the tendency to use simpler language, relying on common words . People with Alzheimer's often repeat the same verbs ... of words ...

Naw … golf ain’t a sport anymore than “ain’t” is a part of the English language; it’s a way for people to convince themselves ...

Bilingual signs written in both Spanish and English tend to use the verb form associated with formal ... that we should always use formal language with people we don’t know.

It's hard to pinpoint when synesthesia, the rare neurological condition where a stimulus that affects one sense prompts a ...

I always thought the Irish language would be part of my life. But, 10 years since my last stint in the Gaeltacht I have ...

In his very first attempt, Nguyen Le Bao Chung, 12, from Ha Tinh province, scored 8.0 on the IELTS, with an impressive 8.5 in ...

At a media roundtable in Brampton, Ont., earlier this year, then immigration minister Marc Miller defended his government’s sudden turn towards reduced immigration levels, including non-renewal for ...

In our system of government lawmakers make laws and courts are tasked with interpreting those statutes.  That process is ...

In Spanish, unlike modern English, speakers must choose between different ways of saying “you” when addressing someone. Some Spanish dialects use up to four different forms – “tú,” “usted,” “vos” and ...