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The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region. The longest word is “carry-go-bring-come." It dates from 1825 and means gossip ...

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This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know ...

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The DOT is withholding $40 million from California, claiming the state is not complying with the English-language proficiency ...

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A Bible translation approved for private use by the US Catholic bishops' conference has drawn some objections over the ...

Even though English is commonly spoken in Ireland and the U.S., there are some major vernacular differences between the two places. Hiberno-English refers to the various forms of English that are ...