The word Halloween seems like a good place to start. The Christian holiday All Saints' Day has been celebrated on Nov. 1 for over a thousand years. Another word for "saint" is "hallow" — as in ...

In Japan, there’s a term for this phenomenon: tsundoku.

Pennies, “6-7,” and the Madness of Time Change Every so often, it’s good to give the mind a break from the heavy stuff and wander into lighter territory. This Friday feels like a good time for that. A ...

Nancy Walker Alexander passed away on October 31, 2025, after a long illness, surrounded by family. She was preceded in death by her parents, James Murray and ...

Of 10,000 U.K. teachers surveyed, 50% reported hearing their students say "trash" or "garbage" instead of the more typical ...

Making English a compulsory subject from grade 1 is undeniably the right direction, but as a parent, the policy still brings ...

Four new educational bingo card sets are now available online to support first-grade English instruction through structured, game-based learning. The new resources focus on verbs, adjectives, nouns, ...

More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.

Research is an activity where you study or investigate something to learn new things about it. There are some words that we often use together with 'research'. These are called collocations. Learn ...

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Without such a framework, the language risks continued fragmentation, inconsistent development, and limited functionality in ...