Unlike alphabet-based languages ... Arabic script is written from right to left, with letters changing form based on their position in a word. The writing omits most vowels, requiring readers ...

The fuss over the deterioration of English standards over the years is at times quite hard to comprehend. During my primary school days, I had friends of all races in my class. We used to converse ...

Eight years ago, Sophie Yeung moved from Hong Kong to Melbourne with her two-year-old daughter. They enjoyed reading nursery rhyme books together, but one thing frustrated the young parent: the ...

At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks ...

Here are the letters of the alphabet ranked according to how frequently they showed up in the 2004 Concise Oxford English Dictionary.

Did You Know? There's only one letter in the entire alphabet that doesn't appear in the name of any US state. Read on to find out which letter it is! Only One Letter Does Not Appear In The Names of US ...

ENGLISH has long been important in connecting the global community, and remains so even in Malaysia as we pursue progress and high-income nation status. However, young Malaysians today seem to ...

Abstract: This study investigates whether Cantonese-English bilingual listeners make implicit use of their L1 (Cantonese) probabilistic phonotactic information in recognizing spoken words in L2 ...

We live in a world of initials. Stores, organizations, destinations that used to be recognized by a full name today are better known by their initials. What was once the Great Atlantic & Pacific ...