Language

Bad Language by So Mayer review – explorations of the ways words are used to control us 
Review

Bad Language by So Mayer review – explorations of the ways words are used to control us 

Why does the state allow for certain name changes but place obstacles in the way of others?
Letters: The world belongs to all of us – so let's make it a kinder place 
Letters

Letters: The world belongs to all of us – so let's make it a kinder place 

Why it's time to stop saying the c-word when talking about suicide
Man with head in his hands
Josie Jakub

Why it's time to stop saying the c-word when talking about suicide

We need to change the way we talk about benefits if we're ever going to rebuild trust in the system
Lucy Bannister

We need to change the way we talk about benefits if we're ever going to rebuild trust in the system

'I wanted the game to feel unlike anything else': How I invented hit board game League of Lexicon
Board games

'I wanted the game to feel unlike anything else': How I invented hit board game League of Lexicon

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
How tourism can bring endangered languages back from the brink
People sitting in a classroom listening to musicians
the future of travel

How tourism can bring endangered languages back from the brink

Are regional accents really disappearing?
Illustration of a boy with a speech bubble
Society

Are regional accents really disappearing?

‘It will be so emotional’: Rose Ayling-Ellis on BSL becoming an official language
Accessibility

‘It will be so emotional’: Rose Ayling-Ellis on BSL becoming an official language

To understand a language you need the culture that surrounds it
Culture

To understand a language you need the culture that surrounds it

Arrival and the cosmic truth of language
Film

Arrival and the cosmic truth of language

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