In a journal kept in 1798, when she and her famous brother William lived at Alfoxden, in the Quantock Hills of Somerset, Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855) recorded a March day spent, as so often, ...

Researchers whose first language is not English can spend around twice as long reading an English-language scientific journal article as native speakers. For a PhD student working on their thesis, ...

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Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Julian Grenfell, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, and Edward Thomas have in common at least the fact that they were English poets born sometime between 1875 and 1895 — and ...

A study looking at ancient texts may have found evidence of a galactic supernova in a poem praising Saladin, the first sultan ...

English is a tricky language to learn. Native speakers may take this for granted, failing to realize how intricate-and inconsistent-many of its pronunciation rules are. For instance, why do heart, ...

Protestors gather in memory of Refaat Alareer and call for an end to Israeli occupation Photo by Andy Soloman/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Refaat’s poem “If I Must Die” has been shared ...

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Nearly 5 per cent of new Wikipedia pages that are published in English seem to contain text generated by artificial intelligence, which could reduce the site’s reliability. Creston Brooks at Princeton ...