Columnist Dick Yarbrough, in a humorous year-end article, recounts 39,000 words, political pokes, typos, heroes, and ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Agenda-driven opinion mills, designed more to sway public opinion than serve the public, might be harder to spot if AI is used to make them sound more original and rational. So the race is on to stay ...

What exactly drives the creation and spread of slang? There is some social science to it.

Common English Grammar Mistakes: English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, yet even fluent speakers often slip up when it comes to grammar. From confusing “its” and “it’s” to ...

The preceding chapter showed how sentences can be streamlined by reducing their adjective clauses to adjective phrases — a simple process that omits the relative pronouns “that,” “which,” “who,” “whom ...

Find your added subjects in My Bitesize. Learn key vocabulary for talking about your friends and family. Practise your language skills to describe and respond to questions about those close to you.

Find your added subjects in My Bitesize. Relationships with family and friends in French Can you understand people talking about their friends and family in French? Practise key phrases and develop ...

Abstract: This paper presents a framework for localization or grounding of phrases in images using a large collection of linguistic and visual cues. We model the appearance, size, and position of ...

Watch out! Thunder goats are dropping in! They use their magic hammers to make sentences filled with potential. As a team, use your knowledge of adverbs and adverbial phrases to describe verbs and ...

The beef had been aged dry for 30 days, and it changed my life. Not the way you’re thinking. I didn’t eat the life-changing meat. I just read about it in an article I was editing — and my relationship ...