Activists and human rights organizations in Syria say more than two dozen people have been killed and many others wounded in Latakia.
A conversation with University of Sussex linguist Lynne Murphy aka Lynneguist. An American in Britain, Murphy maintains the Separated by a Common Language blog.
There’s concern that the tourism industry in London could be hurt by the bad publicity surrounding the riots.
Brooms are becoming a symbol of people’s disapproval of the riots in London
In 1993 Canada lost its Triple AAA credit rating but has since been returned to AAA status.
A Spelling Bee for Muslim World, a language proficiency test for immigrants to Britain, and Alaskans learn an African language.
How much we should blame extreme political rhetoric for the actions of Anders Breivik? Did words help pull the trigger?
Top five language stories this month including: The first Punjabi public school in the US, a and a British journalist rails against the invasion of what he calls Americanisms into British English.
In the latest World in Words podcast, a science fiction writer conceives of a language in which is impossible to lie.
In this week’s World in Words podcast, researchers test the supposed link between reading fiction and empathy.
How the translated Bible has profoundly affected the English spoken by Jamaicans and how it may affect Jamaican Creole and Kalenjin.
One of the world’s first written languages gets a new 21-volume dictionary.
Hedge funds gobble up land in Africa and universities like Harvard are not far behind.
In this week’s World in Words podcast, new Scrabble words and spying on foreign metaphors.
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The World’s Rhitu Chatterjee reports on a small museum in New Delhi that is at the center of an effort to improve sanitation for the 600 million Indians without access to modern toilets. Download MP3
