Language

Meet 1883's most absurd language guide.

Its location has long been debated.

In the 1970s, sawmill workers could talk about technical matters or insult each other in their own special sign language.

The Canadian province has expletives like no other.

Across Ireland, hundreds of millennia-old Ogham stones are slowly weathering away.

The plants are speaking. Time to read what they have to say.

In the eastern part of the state, a dialect like no other quietly endures. But for how long?

How a deaf utopia was uncovered in the 1970s.

How a 19th century "human transcribing machine" inspired generations of linguists.

Well, most of the time.

The English language is the ultimate code-switcher, gaining multiple personalities when it travels.

Should a moose be an "it"? Some writers and scientists think creatures deserve better.

This is the "not face."

After a heyday in the '50s and '60s, Polari all but vanished.

According to experts, it's unlike any word, in any language.

Ironically, the early computing phrase's history is rife with bad information.

The New York accent (also found in New Jersey) is one of the most linguistically strange speech patterns in the country.

New research says that feline communication is possible—but not intuitive.