Semicolon use by Americans has dropped by 51% since the early 2000s to once every 378 words; younger Americans say they still ...

The Crittenden County Sheriff’s Office is confirming that a convicted sex offender has begun serving his prison sentence.

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The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for.

A week of using NotebookLM as my Spanish tutor taught me more than I expected. It showed me that AI can make learning a new ...

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“Savant” is a word that newly minted Doctors of Philosophy like to attribute to themselves. It came to us from France, where ...

Discover how studying the breakdown of language following a stroke has finally revealed the hidden machinery of one of ...

We are taught to think of language as words strung together with grammar. Words evoke specific referents: “apple” refers to ...

The Crown has lost an appeal against a jail sentence handed down to Tyrone Thompson. Three judges in the Court of Criminal Appeal ruled that the 15-year sentence was "within the range of recent ...

A bodybuilder jailed after killing his partner in a jealous rage has claimed his sentence failed to take into account his “otherwise unblemished life”, a court has been told. Sven Lindemann, 53, was ...

New laws to reduce the use of short prison sentences and toughen up community punishments are expected to be introduced within weeks. Ministers are expected to introduce the new legislation to the ...