I distinctly remember the moment, around age 10, when I realized that the word “quarter” had two “r”s in it. As the great-grandson of immigrants, three generations into an American journey from the ...

Elyse Graham, who writes under the pen name E. J. White, recently released "You Talkin' To Me?: The Unruly History of New York English." A new book from a Stony Brook University professor explores ...

Dots on the maps in this piece represent, among other things, efforts to revitalize a language as well as communities of speakers. Most people think of endangered languages as far-flung or exotic, the ...