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India-China joint venture lost in translation (16 Aug 2010): The [Indian] air force's plans to hold its first-e ...

Stephen Fry reveals new BBC TV series (21 Jul 2010): Planet Word, a five-part series, will cover langua ...

In Asia, English tongues still tied (11 Jun 2009): DECADES after the Australian rock group Men at Wor ...

Recession Dictionary: Do You Speak Recession-ese? (09 Mar 2009): As housing prices plummet, stocks plunge and Ameri ...

At this point in time, list of cliches literally banned (02 Jan 2009): ECONOMIC and environmental jargon, such as "b ...

Minneapolis immigrants study to lessen accents (07 Dec 2008): Sourav Bhunia, a native of India who started study ...

Man in search of language (06 Dec 2008): Readers expecting a grand symphony on how Hebrew w ...

Students learn a second language a new way (04 Dec 2008): MIDDLETOWN, New Jersey — For 40 minutes on a rec ...

Brain waves are window into autism language woes (03 Dec 2008): CHICAGO (AP) — Unique brain wave patterns, spott ...

The art of translation (01 Dec 2008): Living in America, it's easy to forget that most o ...

Dictionary helped democracy (30 Nov 2008): Dictionaries should be democratic. John Morse, pre ...

Tolkien inspired by Welsh language (25 Nov 2008): A major new work describes how the Welsh language ...

Bible-translation project gets $50 million donation (24 Nov 2008): ORLANDO, Fla. — A new effort to translate the Bi ...

Welsh language makes EU debut (21 Nov 2008): The Welsh language, spoken by 600,000 people, got ...

Why do women chat more than men? Macaque monkeys could hold the answers (20 Nov 2008): It has long been known that it is a female trait t ...

Gestational diabetes and language delays (19 Nov 2008): Gestational diabetes — a condition that develops ...

Bothered much? 'Meh' is a word (17 Nov 2008): It might be nothing to get excited about, but ther ...

Ukraine seeks nationwide linguistic revival (15 Nov 2008): The collapse of the Soviet Union left a complex mi ...

PC language hinders the fight against terrorism (14 Nov 2008): There is never any situation so challenging that G ...

Changing language in Harold Wilson's Commons speeches indicates cognitive deterioration during his final term of office, new research suggests (12 Nov 2008): Dr Peter Garrard of the University of Southampton ...


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