Since the 1960s, the reference book has cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing. An Object Lesson. That symbolic importance is summed up in the phrase ...

UTQIAĠVIK — Edna Ahgeak Paniattaaq MacLean smiled when her granddaughter Sirroun carried a thick tome with two hands and put it carefully on the table before her. “I had some young people or teenagers ...

Carmel O'Shannessy has worked with Warlpiri people on language and education for many years. She has received Australian Research Council funding for language research about Warlpiri and other Central ...

Gweedore man Pádraig Ó Mianáin loves words. It would be tragic if he didn’t. He’s the lexicographical editor of Foras na Gaeilge and he’s currently the chief editor overseeing the development of both ...