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A poster is seen on the side of a marina saying "I want you to speak English" at North Myrtle beach, South Caolina on September 13th, 2018. (LEILA MACOR/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump to make English official language

Griffin Eckstein
English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) ponders his next work (Stock Montage/Getty Images)

Debunking 5 myths about Shakespeare

Jonathan Culpeper, Mathew Gillings - The Conversation
Man with a chalk speech bubble (Getty Images/mattjeacock)

11 words you're probably mispronouncing

Amanda Green - Mental Floss
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Learning English with mobile gaming

Jennica Grimshaw, Walcir Cardoso - The Conversation
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Simon Horobin - The Conversation
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Sophia Tesfaye
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Raising the kids bilingual?

Janice P. Nimura
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"He" and "she" doesn't cut it

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Laura Ingraham (AP/Mark Humphrey)

Joanna Rothkopf
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McDonald's self-hating complex

Geoffrey Sant
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The absurd history of slang

Jonathon Green
Zosia Mamet in "Girls," William Shakespeare (HBO/Mark Schafer/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-69636p1.html'>Stocksnapper</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Internet slang goes way back

Cameron Hunt McNabb
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Prachi Gupta
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The truth about clichés

Orin Hargraves

Chris Ostendorf - The Daily Dot
Jose Antonio Vargas (AP/Susan Walsh)

"America is a struggle"

Charles R. Davis
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Dina Nayeri - The Brooklyn Quarterly
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Obamacare's "Spanglish" fail

Elias Isquith
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Autumn Harbison - PolicyMic
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Finally ironic

Prachi Gupta
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From baseball to besuboru

James Harbeck - The Week
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Did they have sex or not?

Cary Tennis
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Prachi Gupta

Why we geek out over Tolkien

Robert Rodi
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