When abroad, speaking someone’s native tongue will usually get you into their good books. This is even the case for English ...

Mochdre, in Conwy, translates to Pig Town and Swindon, Wiltshire, is said to mean 'swine' or 'pig hill', while Swinton in ...

A new website is bringing to light a long-overlooked body of poetry attributed to Merlin, revealing his role as a prophetic ...

Lastly, Galtung defines cultural violence as the “symbolic sphere of our existence”—that is, language, art, religion ... violence that is part of this country’s very DNA: Anglo-Saxon exceptionalism.

A new local support group has been formed to help marginalized residents navigating the complexities of intersecting queer ...

French politician and diplomat Charles de Talleyrand once said: "Language is given to man in order to hide his thoughts." It ...

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By Jonn Elledge Last week, when someone told me they were working on a project about the early medieval origins of the English language, my eyes lit up ... relatively little such discussion of the ...

The magnification of this issue by the Liberals and their Ruritanian charade of presenting a Churchillian Mark Carney shaking ...

In recent years, critics in the UK have been scrutinizing aspects of its history, even down to criticizing the use of the term "Anglo-Saxon" to ... may contain "language or depictions that are ...

I didn’t grow up in the 1920’s, but sometimes, I feel like I’m living through them. While many people think of that decade as ...

A new economic study has found that international students are a massive boon for Germany's coffers — even if they get their education free of charge. German industry is now doing more to recruit ...