In an app-based era, new dating tactics emerge rapidly and while you may have deployed one or been subject to one, how many of the following are real?

As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine language, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson ref...

Throughout the history of the language, what has been considered ‘bad’ speech often becomes ‘proper.’ You just have to give it time.

I often feel that I live in my body alongside another person who wants to continually move and say things.

Study finds dropping an expletive can raise confidence and help people push harder during physically demanding tasks

Lane Greene is a senior digital editor and style chief at The Economist , and one of the few journalists writing regularly about language with a grounding in linguistics. A Tulane graduate and...

Older generations are demanding explanations of the viral phrase – but slang doesn’t have to make logical sense

My book, which draws on my upbringing on a diverse and deprived Luton council estate, has been used as a GCSE text. But one man objected to its profane language and depictions of violence and sexual behaviour

Over-reliance on chatbots could be eroding our language and critical thinking skills.

Publishers fear for the future of translated literature as sales of foreign language books rise

Married monographers have collated sometimes absurd word choices through which journalists avoid repetition

Dialects are powerful identifiers, especially when you’re from an ethnic minority

This month we learned that the linguist Robin Lakoff had died at the age of 82. If you’ve heard of Lakoff you will probably know her as the author of Language and Woman’s Place (LWP), an early and …

Student debt increasing, graduate salaries dropping, high-skilled jobs thin on the ground – higher education in the UK is a mess, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Leeds MP Mark Sewards has launched a digital assistant, but the results of my chat show MPs’ aides ’ave nowt to worry about

Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

Linguistics professor says London dialect is most likely to be spoken in Essex, but aspects have traversed the globe

Some call dropping out of events at late notice, even weddings and funerals, self-care, others call it selfishness

Language experts rounded up the year’s winners (losers?) in the US and UK – and provided the correct pronunciations

Northerners, Scots and Irish better at identifying people mimicking accents than southerners