The Stabroek News feature “History This Week” used to provide readers with a most valuable series of vignettes from Guyana’s past. The staff and members of the History Department of the University of ...

Walt McHenry’s desire to put his linguistics studies to use took him on the experience of a lifetime this summer. Close to finishing his master’s degree in linguistics at Indiana State University, he ...

Work on the Royal Irish Academy’s historical dictionary of the Irish language started in 1976 – and could take its 10 dedicated… Work on the Royal Irish Academy's historical dictionary of the Irish ...

Scholars took 37 years to compile a dictionary recording the daily lives of ancient Egyptians, including what taxes they paid, what they expected in a marriage and how they worked. The ancient ...

James M. Morris, professor of history at Christopher Newport University, and Patricia M. Kearns, head of bibliographic control of Swem Library at The College of William and Mary, have teamed up to ...

For compiling a dictionary on canon law, Father Joseph Rhee Chan-woo was awarded the 20th Catholic Academic Award at a ceremony held at Francis Hall in Myeongdong Cathedral Nov. 10. The Canon Law ...

With an increasing demand for online content in Arabic, and the language seeing impressive growth rates on sites like Twitter and Wikipedia, a new project aims to do its part to bridge the gap between ...

CRAYTHUR, culchie and daftie are are some colloquialisms that could be translated into Irish to appear in a new English/Irish dictionary currently being compiled. The foclóir or dictionary will be the ...

Father and son academics in Lichfield have come up with a new way to teach children with dyslexia - by using symbols to help them remember what words mean. They're also compiling a new dictionary for ...

RAJAHMUNDRY:The Mysore-based Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) proposes to bring out a dictionary on Koya language soon, according to Dr PVB Sanjeeva Rao, heading a 30-member ...