A child’s first word can be a meaningful milestone for parents. But sometimes, children don’t have to say anything at all to teach us about how they develop their earliest vocabularies. Arielle ...

Ann Friedman, 67, is founder and chief executive of Planet Word, an interactive museum of words and language that opened in 2020 in downtown D.C. She lives in Bethesda with her husband. So how did the ...

One of the first books I ever read was the Hobbit. I remember smelling smoke and seeing sparks of the fire as the trees crackled and burned around Bilbo and his friends, seeing the lolling pink ...

This column is about language, not foreign affairs. But language is culture. It offers a way to form bonds with people from other lands. When a peaceful country is fighting for its survival, when ...