In Belfast, even in Unionist neighborhoods, Gaeilge, the once-outlawed Irish language, is enjoying a remarkable resurgence with new schools and bilingual signs.

A social media video that captures a kitten 'speaking in tongues' after being caught eating potatoes has left the internet in hysterics. The viral video, which has been viewed more than 3.2 million ...

Andra Day’s connection with God helped her performance in The Deliverance, she tells PEOPLE. In the new horror movie directed by Lee Daniels, the actress and singer, 39, plays Ebony Jackson, an ...

The South African author J.M. Coetzee, now 85 years old, is renowned for his austere, intellectually rigorous novels such as “Disgrace” (1999) and “The Childhood of Jesus” (2013), and his scrupulous ...

A Capital Region native who graduated from Shaker High School and UAlbany now is closing in on 4 million followers across his social media platforms. His schtick? He videochats with people across the ...

“How are we doing today, sweetie?” the nurse asked John, a patient in an assisted living residence. He was offended when the staff spoke to him in this way because it made him feel like a child.

After hundreds of years of disruption, displacement, and colonial violence in Indonesia, I’m learning Dutch. Rudimentary, garbled Dutch, but Dutch nonetheless. Three generations ago, my ...

It is time for another installation of ``Ask Mister Language Person,'' the penultimate authority on grammatorical issues, the column that puts the ``p-u'' in punctuation, the only language column that ...