Pop, soda or coke? The fizzy history behind America’s favorite linguistic debate

July 4, 2025

By: The Conversation

201 ways to say ‘fuck’: what 1.7 billion words of online text shows about how the world swears

June 20, 2025

By: Courier Newsroom

Making English the official US language can’t erase the fact that the US has millions of Spanish speakers and a long multilingual history

March 3, 2025

By: The Conversation

How to say a beautiful ‘hello’ – inspired by philosophy from non-English speaking cultures

August 22, 2024

By: The Conversation

Sellout! How political corruption shaped an American insult

January 15, 2024

By: The Conversation

Presidential pauses? What those ‘ums’ and ‘uhs’ really tell us about candidates for the White House

August 22, 2023

By: The Conversation

To have better disagreements, change your words

May 31, 2023

By: The Conversation

Not all insurrections are equal – for enslaved Americans, it was the only option

January 7, 2023

By: The Conversation

‘Y’all,’ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream – and it’s about time

December 1, 2022

By: The Conversation

Everyday African American Vernacular English is a dialect born from conflict and creativity

November 3, 2022

By: The Conversation