Language

How you say it certainly says something about who you are.

A new study shows most people can tune into how chickens are feeling based on their clucks alone.

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.

Places that are usually hot or cold developed languages differently.

A subtle, if temporary, change to one of the world’s biggest websites underscored a modern triumph of paleontology, and how we understand life on Earth.

The human tongue detected it long before it could say it.

The now common term wasn't used to describe medieval Scandinavians until the 19th century.

From "unabridged" to "slanguage," Madeline Kripke's library is a logophile's heaven (or hell).

I made a bunch of linguists listen to this social media phenomenon and tell me what’s going on.

A small museum tells the stories of the Gullah Geechee people and how they've shaped America.

From Twitter's rebranding to algebra, this single letter has an uncommon amount of...X factor. A historian of mathematics gets to the root of it.