In Spanish, “cariño,” “mi vida,” and “amor” are used similarly, as are terms like “habibi” in Arabic, “tesoro” and “amore” in Italian, “meu bem” in Portuguese, “mon cœur” in French, and so on.

Back in the 1980s, we blamed Aussie soaps Neighbours and Home and Away for reshaping the way teenagers spoke. Today, that ...

I am often asked why English is such a difficult to learn for non-native speakers. In fact, how hard it is to learn depends on what your native language is; and this follows as languages are more (or ...

Word of the Day: Quiddity meaning is the essential nature of something. It answers the question, what makes a thing what it is. Quiddity pronunciation is KWID-ih-tee. The word comes from Latin ...

In an era of rapid-fire ‘Thx’ and automated email replies, let's look back at a word that carries the weight of genuine ...

Krupa Padhy uncovers how we really learn foreign languages – in a dual challenge involving both Portuguese and Mandarin.

President Spencer W. Kimball’s centennial talk set big goals for the university. This one is measurable.

Fake news generated by AI is often perceived as more credible than texts written by humans. That worries linguist Silje Susanne Alvestad. In 2017, "fake news" was chosen as the new word of the year by ...

Interbrain synchrony is the simultaneous activity of neural networks across the brains of people who are socially interacting ...

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.

A scientific review carried out by a team in the English and German Philology Department at the UCO explores the pedagogical dimension of bilingual university programs in Europe. The implementation of ...

There’s a surprisingly strong debate long-swirling around the term “moped.” For a word that started as a simple mashup ...