Remember the warning issued by the MNS chief Raj Thakeray about using only Marathi language for interaction and especially for taking oath and the unsavoury episode...

Around a quarter of the world’s population speaks just three languages: Mandarin, English and Spanish. But out of the 6,700 of the world’s identified...

“My name is Samiullah. I am from Surkhrud district of Nangrahar province, Afghanistan. We live on Warsak Road in Peshawar. I work with an NGO in central Daikundi...

The English Teacher (teacharium anglesius) is a species which has existed for hundreds of years now, and its habitat has expanded to cover much of the globe. It can be...

At the risk of sounding parochial, I thought of penning my thoughts on a topic that I feel passionately about, a dreadful disease deemed by some as Mother Tongue...

“We walk English, we talk English, for English is a very funny language”…this is what Amitabh Bachhan has said in one of his most famous dialogues in the super...

Some of the most common mistakes are in spelling, often using ‘their’ when students mean ‘there’, ‘who’s’ for...

An eccentric British millionaire has put his entire life up for sale on the Internet - including his title of Lord of the Manor of Warleigh - in the hope of converting...

Last September, there appeared in the London newspaper The Telegraph a delightful piece on Indian English by Amrit Dhillon, marking the publication of a Penguin book on...

Previously, TechRepublic ran an article about 10 grammar mistakes that make you look stupid. The examples cited involved the misuse of words in written and verbal...

Embaressed by yor spelling? Never you mind. Fed up with his students’ complete inability to spell common English correctly, a British academic has suggested it...

Since 1966 people have been pointing at Star Trek and asking

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to...

My mother tongue is Hindi and, If my memory is not failing me, even my late father used the same language to express his love and care for me and my family. In fact, he...

English has become the Lingua franca of international commerce, said Cambridge educated Singaporean prime minister Lee Hsien Loong. It is indeed true but how many of us...

None can argue language skills might affect job performance by miscommunications if job tasks reflect on pure linguistics especially. Photo courtesy from...

Man uses language to communicate his thoughts efficiently. The efficacy of his communication depends upon the way he makes himself intelligible through his speech and...

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s nothing to LOL about: Despite best efforts to keep school writing assignments formal, two-thirds of teens admit in a survey that emoticons...

Students in Delhi government schools will be taught how to speak better English and develop various technical skills in a bid to check the dropout rate in state-run...

One person I have always loved and respected is Mr. V. Gangadhar who has been writing the “Slice of Life” for “The Hindu”. The other person who...