As Virginia's first female newspaper publisher, Clementina Rind emphasized women's viewpoints and collaborated with prominent ...
Utterances like um, wow and mm-hmm used to be dismissed as irrelevant linguistic detritus. But some linguists now think they ...
After a run of 196 years, the tradition of printing The Providence Journal in R.I. – as well as Fall River, New Bedford and Taunton papers – has come to an end.
Other interjections serve as what some linguists call “continuers,” such as mm-hmm — signals from the listener that they’re ...
He went on to explain that he had been assigned portions and summaries of novels — excerpts followed by quizzes, perhaps to ...
You awake one morning to see huge spaceships hovering over your neighborhood. In your front yard, someone from another planet ...
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government ...
Justin Langan grew up feeling bored and different, but he channelled that into a life of activism and community-building ...
A few years after the publication of her third novel, Americanah, the celebrated Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie got pregnant with her first child and found herself shut out of that part of ...
Francis’ feeble voice, discernible through his labored breaths and in his native Spanish, was recorded from the hospital and ...
Previous discoveries at Sheffield Castle include a “hidey-hole” left behind by a steelworker in a cellar as well as medieval tokens and newly discovered castle walls as the site “keeps revealing its ...