Five years ago, I published The Language Police, to warn about the ways in which political correctness was imposing blatant censorship on textbooks and tests. I discovered that words like cowboy, ...

New insights from archaeology, genetics and early inscriptions are helping to uncover the story of Celtic languages in ...

Love may have its own language – but that’s not good enough for the British government. It wants English, too. Starting this fall, the spouse of a citizen who is coming from outside the European Union ...

Oscar Wilde once said, “We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language” — and it’s still true. On your first trip to Britain, you’ll find plenty of linguistic ...

It was my grandfather's secret life and hidden ritual, but one that he shared with millions across the globe. Throughout the 1970s, in his tiny Kiev apartment, my grandfather would wait until his ...

Welsh singer Gwenno’s new album is in Cornish, which is spoken by fewer than 1000 people. It’s one of many ‘lost’ languages being reborn, writes Holly Williams. “A eus le rag hwedhlow dyffrans?” So ...

THE last time she was recruiting for her export-sales team, Sarah Grain hired a Lithuanian who speaks Russian, Polish and German. Her two previous hires for Eriez Magnetics, which makes industrial ...

UNEMPLOYED LONDONERS hoping to work for Gucci, an Italian fashion retailer, may be surprised by the skills required. As well as knowledge of luxury products, including accessories and leather goods, ...

Learning a second language can be extremely lucrative for your career opportunities. And after jobs search engine Adzuna analysed over 1 million live job postings on its website, it found out that ...

Love may have its own language — but that's not good enough for the British government. It wants English, too. Starting this fall, the spouse of a citizen who is coming from outside the European Union ...