English is becoming one of the most common languages worldwide, yet silent letters in words present a challenge for many learners. Silent letters help distinguish homophones, but result from borrowing ...

Re “Senate race to replace Barbara Boxer just got more interesting” (Thomas Elias, March 21): Ron Unz thinks that because of Proposition 227, which dismantled bilingual education in California, ...

THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six ...

Academics have been studying a cache of letters discovered from Voltaire's time in England An Oxford academic has uncovered letters by Voltaire which reveal how much this icon of French writing ...