‘They’: The ‘Word of the Year’ is more than a nod to shifting attitudes on gender

Reed Blaylock, The Conversation

· Jan 20, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Essay: You cannot go back home once you have left it. You find it afresh in literature and language

Kunal Ray

· Dec 29, 2019 · 07:30 am

You know that warm, fuzzy feeling evoked by cat videos? There is a Sanskrit word to describe it

Alan Fiske, Aeon

· Dec 28, 2019 · 01:30 pm

A case for the apostrophe, the punctuation mark that is polarising the literary world

Roslyn Petelin, The Conversation

· Dec 06, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’: How to decode the story’s linguistic secrets

Simon Horobin, The Conversation

· Nov 26, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Watch: How actor Taapsee Pannu shut down troll who asked her to speak in Hindi

Scroll Staff

· Nov 24, 2019 · 06:21 pm

Listen: Twenty-two Indian languages in one song, sung by a 15-year-old

Scroll Staff

· Nov 22, 2019 · 12:57 pm

How Pakistani novelist and translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi built his Urdu thesaurus for the world

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

· Nov 10, 2019 · 12:30 pm

No ‘joie de vivre’, ‘cul-de-sac’ after Brexit: The French are determined to take their language back

Scroll Staff

· Nov 03, 2019 · 11:12 am

Five common English words we may all be using incorrectly (because mistakes are perpetuated)

Simon Horobin, The Conversation

· Oct 31, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How two young global desis learnt to make English their own language in India

Kalpana Mohan

· Oct 03, 2019 · 07:30 am

What was Harappa’s language? The answer remains the missing piece of Indians’ ancestry puzzle

Tony Joseph

· Sep 06, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Millennialspeak: ‘Like’ is not a lazy linguistic filler. The word has, like, a grammar of its own

Rebecca Woods, The Conversation

· Aug 25, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Twitter is helping the ancient Scots language thrive (and garner attention)

E Jamieson and Sadie Ryan, The Conversation

· Aug 15, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Bloodbath, war room, shot down: ‘Warspeak’ is permeating everyday language, creating violence

Robert Myers, The Conversation

· Aug 13, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Wakhi, Palula, Kalkoti: Pakistan has done little to save its linguistic diversity

Zubair Torwali, Dawn.com

· Jul 09, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Wimmen, meen and greeve: How Noah Webster tried to create a truly American English dictionary

Peter Martin, Aeon

· Jun 27, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Indian languages were being neglected even in the world of fonts. Not anymore

Prachi Sibal

· Apr 29, 2019 · 11:30 am

RRB JE Recruitment 2019: Language change option activated at regional websites

Scroll Staff

· Apr 25, 2019 · 03:03 pm

Linguists have identified the weirdest languages – and English is one of them

Adam Schembri, The Conversation

· Apr 20, 2019 · 08:30 pm