Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used. A new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English. Black people ...

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 ...

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 ...

For generations, Native American languages across the United States were pushed toward extinction through government policies designed to erase Indigenous cultures. Children were removed from their ...

No, here they are. . . . Last night I had the lecturer’s vocational nightmare: I dreamed that I had lost my notes. Since this is a series of lectures concerning American characteristics, I must be ...