Even fluent speakers of standard Japanese scratch their heads a little when they come to Hokkaido and hear phrases they have never encountered before in their lives, like namara and menkoi. These ...

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English likes to stick contractions on the end of words. “They have” becomes “they’ve,” “I will” becomes “I’ll,” and “do not” becomes “don’t.” The shortened parts of these words are called ...

If you learn just 10 Old English words today, let them be these from Mark Forsyth's The Horologicon: A Day’s Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language. “There is a single Old English word ...

The notoriously difficult phonology of the Polish language has always caused much trouble and confusion for neighbouring nations. But what are the absolute hardest words? Germans look at Polish and ...

A loving couple should support one another, and here in Maine, in the US, they take it to heart. Fifty men stepped up to the plate at the annual North American Wife-Carrying Championship. The men ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. It's not a sport yet. But it requires a lot of agility. This is 'freerunning', also called Parkour, and it's here to stay. The practice of jumping ...

Explore the NIACL AO Mains Exam Analysis 2025 for insights on the recently concluded exam. Get section-wise Analysis, difficulty, important topics, and question trends ...

Disgraced former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) broke his silence to express his "deepest gratitude" to U.S. President Donald Trump for commuting his prison sentence. Santos, 37, was sentenced to seven ...

MANILA, Philippines — Eleven Filipino words were added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its March 2025 update. In a commentary posted on its website, the Oxford English Dictionary explained: “Often ...

Abstract: Sentence embedding is an important research topic in natural language processing (NLP) since it can transfer knowledge to downstream tasks. Meanwhile, a contextualized word representation, ...