If Geoffrey Chaucer, hailed as the ‘father of English literature’ was to be alive again, he would not get what was being said in his own mother tongue. In December 2021, ‘floofy’ was one of the new ...

On English Language Day today — which is also William Shakespeare’s birth anniversary — TOI takes a look at the changing face of the language With increased influence of technology and the rapid speed ...

Chat acronyms are one of the many urban forms of language that have stood the test of time, blurring the lines between formal and informal text based communication and in turn has led to the undoing ...