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Courtesy of Oregon Health AuthorityThe Oregon Health Authority鈥檚 Ombuds program is concerned about the lack of care in languages other than English and gaps in mental health and addiction treatment for Oregonians enrolled in Medicaid. -
Nick Ut/AP PhotoDiacritical marks are placed above, below or next to a letter to indicate a particular pronunciation. A Sacramento-area family is pushing to get California to recognize those marks on state-issued documents.
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Maybe you don't want to write the great American novel, but you do at least want to make your reports for work clear and concise. A lot of us have to鈥� -
John Simpson spent much of his adult life laboring on a book. You'd think he might have long since devoted himself to streaming video, but no, he still鈥� -
RU ROFL about Internet communication, or do U H8 it? SWYP?Linguist and author Gretchen McCullough explores how the Internet is changing the way we speak鈥� -
The way we use language today is not the same as a couple of generations ago. If we used the word "cool" to describe something interesting to our鈥� -
Close to half the people on Earth can speak more than one language. The percentage (43) is actually higher than the percentage of people who speak only鈥� -
America's independence from England wasn't just fought on the battlefield. Early Americans insisted on a new way of speaking that would be a distinctly鈥� -
Even when we're not uttering malapropisms, we may not be using the exact words we intended. Charles Harrington Elster can help; his voluminous knowledge鈥�
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Did you leave your brolly in the boot of your car? If the phrase makes immediate sense, you might be British. We share a language with the United Kingdom,鈥� -
Language and pronunciation are constant issues in the radio business. If we call Yreka "Eureka," we're not just wrong, we're off by 200 miles (by road).鈥� -
"What's that word?" If there were ever a person to ask that of, it's John Simpson. He spent half a lifetime as the senior editor of the final word in鈥�
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Maybe you've visited one of those web quiz pages that asks you about some word choices, then tells you--often accurately--where you're from. The quiz鈥� -
We've been tasked with interviewing John McWhorter. It's not that big an ask, and he literally will not be here in person. Do those first two sentences鈥�
