Think about what you could do with around $664 million. Now think about what you could do with that money over a seven year period. This is exactly what the country Kazakhstan is going to have to consider as it is reforming its alphabet. As of now, the Kazakh language...
Depending on what subject you’re studying, morphology can mean different things. In linguistics, morphology is the study of word formation, words, and how words relate to each other in a language. Morphology takes different parts of words into consideration, which...
Once Upon A Room is a nonprofit organization that sophomore Siena Dancsecs helped start when she was in 5th grade. Students involved in Once Upon A Room visit hospitals to decorate the rooms of children who are long term patients. Once Upon A Room regularly visits...
Even though electric cars are eco-friendly, they are not necessarily human friendly. This is because of the Cobalt used to make the lithium-ion batteries that power these cars. It turns out that children are being exploited in the process of mining the precious...
President Trump signed the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) on April 11, which will enable state prosecutors to target and punish the owners of websites that post ads for sex. The law will also allow victims of these ads to file lawsuits against the websites...
Sunday, April 15 was a sad day for the linguistics community because this was when Michael Halliday died. Halliday was known for his grammatical description called Systemic Functional Grammar, or SFG. His theory has been somewhat influential on the study of grammar,...
If there’s one thing you can be sure of, it’s that English Syntax can definitely get interesting. Syntax is the branch of linguistics that deals with sentences and their structures. In case you’re wondering, Syntax is different from grammar, because Syntax explains...
Take a look at the following English words: butcher, squirrel, mortgage, and choir. Does something seem off about them? At one point in time, the words move and love rhymed. So did blood, good, and food. But today, all of those words are pronounced differently. Have...
Twenty migrant Myanmar workers were killed in a fire on a bus in western Thailand on Friday, March 30. Three others were hurt, while the rest of the people were able to get away safely. According to police, the bus had forty seven passengers on it, and those...
The English language has very interesting sound patterns and pronunciation rules that sets it apart from other languages. These sounds tend to be difficult, if not tiresome for non-native speakers to figure out. The several different kinds of sounds in English makes...
