Britain and the US share a common language – but English is spoken and spelled very differently on each side of the Atlantic. James Harbeck finds out why. On the other hand, why has it not taken more ...

We all communicate through words, either by speaking or writing. Very rarely, we use nods, or some simple hand signs to communicate. Unfortunately, there are deaf people in the world who cannot hear ...

Dan Bern is a folkie at heart. At times too much hype and persona, he might have had us believing otherwise in the past. But his latest release, New American Language, reveals him to be the witty, ...

TROUGH Mr. Mencken’s book on our language has the rare distinction among philological works of deserving to be read especially for its faults, it has, so far as word-mongering is concerned, a distinct ...

Mr. Mencken has stowed probably 30,000 such odd data in the third of a million words and 700 text pages of his new fourth edition, which is the third so drastically rewritten and enlarged that no more ...

Is it dangerous to speak Spanish in public in Trump's America? Well, sí! Just this month, we've seen a lawyer threaten to call ICE after he overheard people in a restaurant in Manhattan speak in ...

Welcome to the American Sign Language (ASL) program, housed in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Science at the University of Colorado! We are a vibrant, multicultural, diverse community ...

As a result of language dysfluency caused by language deprivation, psychiatric assessment of DHH American Sign Language users is complex. 36 Mental health providers must understand the trauma that is ...

American Sign Language is a dynamic living language with approximately 1 million users in the United States and Canada. A minor in ASL provides students with the ability to conceptualize language in a ...

The royalties for the first edition (of four) of H.L. Mencken’s The American Language were greater than those for any of his other books, causing Mencken to remark: “The moral is plain: fraud pays.” ...