Last week's legislative hearing on standardizing CHamoru spelling in government documents drew overwhelming support, but for ...

The first NYU study, led by Kristin Black, a research scientist at the university’s Institute for Human Development and ...

Book clubs and language lessons are two great ways to combine reading new words and sharing them with others, Prof. Wright said. So is playing social word games. For example, expanding your vocabulary ...

The Times reports the dictionary contains around 4,000 entries and was compiled to help visitors avoid being targeted by London’s criminal “canting crew” - a catch-all phrase for vagrants, thieves, ...

Language is a living thing. With a recent deluge of international travelers to Japan and plenty more aspirants, it may be no surprise that the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has once more inducted a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Dogs are great at learning action commands like “sit” and “stay.” They’re less good at remembering the names of things, like what their squeaky or stuffed toys are called. Only an ...

They’re less good at remembering the names of things, like what their squeaky or stuffed toys are called. Only an elite group of gifted word-learner dogs can retain the names of hundreds of toys.

There are a few special words that will perk the ears of many a dog - hungry, park, and of course T-R-E-A-T. But a choice group of gifted canines appear to have remarkable capacity for learning human ...

Gov. Meyer pledged $3 million in state money toward classroom-specific projects that support reading. Nearly 4,000 have seen ...

Plenty of presidents have reached for a salty four-letter word when the moment felt right, but why would the Trump administration stop there? This week it’s been getting significant mileage from a ...

Children aged two with highest screen use can say significantly fewer words, UK government research finds Excessive screen time could damage toddlers’ ability to speak, the UK government has warned as ...