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Sit around the dinner table with two or three generations in many Black British families, and you’ll notice differences in the way we speak. It’s these contrasts, both big and small, that make the ...

English is a well-accepted language in the Philippines; that is why majority of the educated people communicate using the English language. This internationally accepted language provides educational ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid continues to take heat for comments he made about President Obama and his lack of a "negro dialect." But the dustup also shines a bright light on the practice of code ...

"Every single one of us has our own understanding about code-switching. In my world, it's the code-switching of my gender, of how I express myself with my ethnicity. And sometimes, you know, sometimes ...

We switch between slang, dialect and technical jargon throughout our day – depending on the situation we find ourselves in. It sounds banal, but there’s even a specialist term for this phenomenon: ...

The “angry Black woman” stereotype has chased Black women around for decades and young Black women are feeling even more stressed to conform. The pressure comes from all corners of life, especially in ...

How to create a multilingual website? Launching a multi-lingual website manually can be lengthy process based on basic Word Press, PHP. An understanding of HTML helps a lot. Most of the WordPress ...