English, with about a third of its words rooted in French, is a prime example of how language transforms based on society.

Millions of Xs will be crossed at the bottom of Valentines cards today. Here's how one simple letter came to represent love ...

Clumps of capital letters at the beginning, and sometimes also the end, signify the dogs’ achievements in various sports.

Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president, entered the earthly stage as Hiram Ulysses Grant. When his name was mistakenly entered on the West Point register as Ulysses Simpson Grant, he eagerly ...

The F word. F… U… and no need for that third and fourth letter, the point is made without. Writing the third and fourth letter changes the meaning in no way, it just adds the unpleasant “uch” sound.

Leyton Orient manager Richie Wellens believes Northern Ireland international Ethan Galbraith is a “Premier League player in the making” after the former Manchester United ace produced yet another ...

"I'm a history major," said Barnes. "One of the times it really got to me was when I was looking through an old arrest report book. We were trying to find when Wyatt Walker and Harry Blake were ...

This database is currently being extended to cover information on letter recipients as well ... The Corpus of Early English Correspondence Extension (CEECE) takes off from 1681 where the old CEEC ends ...

Kallie Kriel, CEO of Afriforum, SA’s most powerful civic society organisation, shares uncomfortable truths in this interview with BizNews editor Alec Hogg.

American Arthur “Chip” Gaudio Jr. and Swedish exchange student Jenny Teresia Sundberg briefly attended high school together in 1992. Here’s what happened when Arthur decided to travel to Sweden to ...

Then, as early as the 1st century CE, minuscule began to emerge: smaller, rounder letters that required fewer strokes. You could write them more quickly than their majuscule count ...