A society dedicated to preserving the correct use of the apostrophe has shut down because "ignorance has won".  Retired journalist John Richards, 96, started the Apostrophe Protection Society in 2001 to make sure the “much-abused” punctuation mark was being used correctly. But Mr Richards has now announced: “With regret I have to announce that, after some 18 years, I have decided to close the Apostrophe Protection Society.

Dogs can recognise subtle differences in our language, even for unfamiliar voices, which we thought only humans could do

Book review: Linguistics in the Internet age charts a path from BBSes to T9 and beyond.

Researchers say computer systems are learning from lots and lots of digitized books and news articles that could bake old attitudes into new technology.

As UNESCO brings urgent awareness to Indigenous languages this year, a linguist considers whether saving languages is sentimental or critical.

Linguist and Because Internet author Gretchen McCulloch asked her Twitter followers to share the words that they can’t actually spell without relying on spellcheck. The answers she got will comfort and edify you....

Each year, dictionaries like Merriam-Webster add a few new words to their lexical listings.

Mort Felix liked to say that his name, when read as two Latin words, meant “happy death.” When he was sick with the flu, he used to jokingly remind his wife, Susan, that he wanted Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” played at his deathbed. But when his life’s end arrived at the age of 77, he lay in his study in his Berkeley, California, home, his body besieged by cancer and his consciousness cradled in morphine, uninterested in music and refusing food as he dwindled away over three weeks in 2012. “Enough,” he told Susan. “Thank you, and I love you, and enough.” When she came downstairs the next morning, she found Felix dead.

A new look at “the Russian Blues” demonstrates the power of words to shape perception

Usually, a minor language will adopt words from a dominant language, but NZ English bucks this trend. It has been borrowing a growing number of Māori words, not always to add meaning but to mark identity.

I knew I’d never sound like a native. But shouldn’t I be much better than this?

Risking the wrath of purists, the board game’s official arbiters have approved use of the two-letter initialism along with thousands of other new words

Scott Chacon is CEO of the online language learning company Chatterbug.

A University of Bristol academic has succeeded where countless cryptographers, linguistics scholars and computer programs have failed—by cracking the code of the 'world's most mysterious text', the Voynich manuscript.

Can you spell history? The 92nd Scripps National Spelling Bee had an epic ending with eight co-champions.

By Emma Young. Getting better at a new language doesn’t have to mean hard hours on lists of vocab and the rules of grammar.

An AI program developed by Alibaba has notched up a record-high score on a reading comprehension test.

Spelling contests have remained a feature in American life since the Puritans landed on Plymouth Rock — but is peaking at 12 years old all it’s cracked up to be?

Some languages that have never been deciphered could be the next ones to get the machine translation treatment.

A close look at a strangely global idiom about how little we understand each other.