English is a trap. It’s a language built on theft, borrowing words from German, French, and Latin, shaking them up in a bag, ...

Arabic is spoken by more than 400 million people. Can you recognise these Arabic words that made their way into English?

ABSTRACT: This study was concerned with the short vowels in modern standard Arabic words with Consonant Vowel-Consonant Vowel-Consonant Vowel (CVCVCV) structure, and the long vowels in words with ...

Learn the simple English trick of the day to never confuse 'a' vs 'an' again – easy rule that works 100% of the time, even ...

Choosing a name is often a moment charged with emotion and meaning. What if the beauty of a name could be scientifically measured? A surprising study conducted by a British linguist claims that a name ...

Ambiguous speech production is a common challenge for learners of a second language (L2), but identifying whether the problem ...

Here's what a tech writer uncovered while testing top translation apps on a recent trip to Europe and Asia. Google Translate provides translations for 249 languages with the option for audio ...

Just want to learn to use phonR? Read the tutorial vignette. This is a package for the R language built for phoneticians and phonologists. Its main claim-to-fame is the plotVowels function, which ...

Wordle #1616 begins with the letter V, includes two vowels, and features no repeating letters. A key Wordle hint pointing toward a ‘fundamental element of every word’, steers players in the right ...