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When the Past Tense Makes Us Tense

Today, let's weed our grammatical garden. Betty Lundy of West Point, Mississippi, wonders how to say that her son removed ...
“Hi, Magi. Your eyes look so sunken! What’s going on? Are you binge-watching?” “No, Millie. I was surfing the net looking for ...
The government has announced that some migrants coming to the UK in 2026 will need to demonstrate they can speak English to ...
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Who guards the hometown accent?

Once when I was in Thai Binh, someone asked me in Vietnamese about my "nương". I froze for a second. "Why's he asking me ...
English, along with the vast majority of the world’s languages, uses what linguists call egocentric or relative spatial description. So if you were to describe where something is, you would give a ...
What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big, blinding event: kaboom! Vulcanologists, seismologists, geologists and ...
The Bible reveals to us that there are two keys to entering the kingdom of God. What they are is clearly delineated in one ...
When a pediatrician caring for patients with a rare genetic disease discovers incidentally that he carries his own rare high-risk mutation, he must learn from a patient’s parents how to shift his ...
African American English derives from a historical past of contact between multiple language speakers. It varies across age, ethnicity, class, and gender. There is more than one AAE. | Iryna ...