Americans tend to think that we’re a pretty homogeneous nation, in terms of our vocabulary. Yes, there are Southern drawls, and there’s Boston and Brooklyn and Appalachia and Minnesota, but the words ...

When students of Pashto grew tired of having their seven-pound dictionary give them mistranslations of words they looked up, they found a simple solution - they wrote their own program that would ...

Ros Barber has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She is Director of Research at the Shakespearean Authorship Trust. If you have any sort of interest in Shakespeare, ...