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Not long ago, a cellphone was a cell phone. A teenager was a teen-ager. Goodbye was good-bye. A website was a Web site. Legroom was leg room. Words and compounds evolve all the time. But in this ...

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Finnish happiness expresses itself in one little word, onni – and a host of other words and expressions derived from it.

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The use of language is filled with expressions and ideas that are repeated and repeated without any question or doubt. Some ...

Word of the Day: Fastidious reminds readers that language provides powerful tools for describing the subtle qualities that ...

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By Damian Flanagan My eldest daughter has a fondness for learning languages -- French and German -- but her real passion is ...

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