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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Amish population in North America nearly doubles every 20 years, according to a 2023 study by Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. This suggests the number of ...

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 ...

Columnist, author, and linguist Richard Lederer spent about six months writing his latest book, “American History for Everyone.” That was a lot longer than it’s typically taken him to write his dozens ...

When the federal government set up boarding schools in the 19th century to assimilate Native American children into American culture, one of the objectives was to get them to turn away from the use of ...

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 ...

For more than 150 years, the Wôpanâak language was silent. With no fluent speakers alive, the language of the Mashpee Wampanoag people existed only in historical documents. It was by all measures ...

Many Native Americans who attended a recent powwow in Missoula, Mont., remember what it was like to be punished for speaking a tribal language. For about a century, starting in the 1870s, the U.S.

American Sign Language The online American Sign Language (ASL) courses and certificates teach learners how to effectively communicate in ASL. Students in these courses also learn about the Deaf ...