Linguist Anne Curzan delights in the nuances and evolution of language. She says we should embrace they/them as singular pronouns---which have actually been used for hundreds of years. Anne Curzan is ...

The British Library has assembled a unique digital collection that allows researchers and students to examine the evolution of spoken English. The collection includes 288 pairs of digital recordings ...

The present study uses a multidimensional approach to trace the historical evolution of written genres of English. We briefly present a model of stylistic variation developed in our previous work, ...

This segment was rebroadcast on April 26, 2023. Click here for that audio. Black American English is constantly changing. Why? Here & Now's Ciku Theuri explains where it came from and the forces at ...

Sarah Palin may actually be right for once! After people teased her about her freakish creation of the word “refudiate,” she tweeted, “English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words ...

Linguist Anne Curzan delights in the nuances and evolution of language. She says we should embrace they/them as singular pronouns---which have... They/Them and the evolution of English Part 1 of the ...