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Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

On Halloween night, 1968, a flock of twenty eminent New Yorkers burst out of the door of Stephen Sondheim’s Turtle Bay town ...

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We are an interdisciplinary school, forming a community that truly brings together and sits at the interface of literature, language and linguistics. The School of English at the University of ...

Reba McEntire was called out during a singer's performance at the NBC Christmas in Rockefeller Center broadcast, after pronouncing the singer's name incorrectly ...

Reba McEntire's pronunciation of singer Laufey's name during NBC's Christmas in Rockefeller Center broadcast sparked surprised reactions on social media Wednesday night.