In American English, grammar experts prefer "toward" over "towards," along with "backward," "forward" and "afterward," though ...

Compiling a dictionary is a long trek: at every step, a pitfall, a furrow or a rock.” Thus Maurice Druon, the Perpetual ...

and ‘brat summer’ established itself as an aesthetic and a way of life,” the dictionary said. Collins experts monitor their ...

Programs that facilitate the understanding of texts and dialogues in another language can replicate, replace, or overlook ...

Noah Webster (1758 - 1843), the American linguist of Webster's Dictionary fame ... when we're reading a text, which variety of English it's in - and people have quite strong preferences," de Bres says ...

Especially with texting being such a staple in today’s communication, abbreviations, contractions, and other words that just don’t sound as if they possibly could be considered legitimate have become ...

A child of immigrants responds to the racist, misogynistic, and bigoted rhetoric going viral in the U.S. in the wake of ...

I wrote a story recently with five f---s in it and when the story was published, sure enough, three of the four letters in ...

Timothy Shanahan, who sat on the 2000 National Reading Panel and later helped develop the concept of disciplinary literacy, took questions from EdWeek on how it fits into K-12 schools’ larger aims on ...

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The answer to the “Silly as all get-out” clue in the Nov. 7 NYT Mini Crossword puzzle is “INANE.” According to the Oxford English Dictionary, inane means lacking sense or meaning and is an adjective.