They will search for remains of four U.S. soldiers, including a general who became a hero after his refusal to obey Japanese ...

A news study captures self-reported shifts in speech and slang, and it shows the dialects fading across the country.

News came that Robert Duvall had died. Movie images and moments of movie dialogue poured through my mind. No other actor ever evoked so many or so much.

After leaving Greece in 1997 to move to America, Zoi Kladis, found success in running a breakfast restaurant with her dad and brother.

A company that makes toys powered by artificial intelligence exposed snippets of thousands of conversations its toys had with children.

From the sharp vowels of the Northern Cities to the drawl of the Deep South, the nasal twang of the Upper Midwest, the fast-paced chatter of New York City, and the smooth, flattened tones of the West ...

Usually the final Front Porch column I write every year, or sometimes the first one of the new year, is my very favorite one of all – the word of the year column, in which I chew on the words or ...

When Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah first learned over the weekend that US forces had struck Venezuela and abducted its leader, he wanted answers. Without the approval of Congress, he wondered, what ...

On Friday, at the annual meeting of the American Dialect Society (ADS) in New Orleans, a vote will be taken and the 2025 Word of the Year announced. The longest-running such enterprise—it began in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may be speaking Soprano — and not even know it. “The Sopranos” — the drama about families of mobsters in suburban Jersey — ...