Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of American English is how the nation’s different groups have made the language their own — but it’s also about the way ...

"The People’s Tongue: Americans and the English Language" is available Feb. 14. (Courtesy Restless Books) In his new anthology, “The People’s Tongue: Americans and the English Language,” editor Ilan ...

Republican Senators J.D. Vance of Ohio and Kevin Cramer of North Dakota will introduce legislation today that would establish English as the official language of the United States. Near the end of a ...

Broadway, as always, is giving us lessons on language and its connection to music. The stellar new production of “Purlie Victorious,” not seen on Broadway since 1961, is Exhibit A. The show is not a ...

Oxford University Press has announced a large-scale study that will culminate in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, the brainchild of historian Henry Louis Gates that will focus on the ...

The story of American English is how the nation’s different groups have made the language their own — but it’s also about the way it connects Americans. The latest book by the Mexican American author ...