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Topic: Language (page 2)

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
Trinity the Tuck, Shea Couleé, Raja, The Vivienne, Jaida Essence Hall, Jinkx Monsoon, Monét X Change and Yvie Oddly in Season 7 of "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" (Jordin Althaus/World of Wonder/Paramount+)

11 drag slang terms you should know

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
Three chimpanzees sitting in a group appear to have a meeting (Getty Images/curioustiger)

Wait, chimpanzees can talk?

Matthew Rozsa
Elisabeth Moss attends the Premiere of Universal Pictures' "The Invisible Man" at TCL Chinese Theatre on February 24, 2020 in Hollywood, California. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

Elisabeth Moss on cursing in Scientology

Alison Stine
Omphalotus nidiformis, or ghost fungus (Getty Images/Louise Docker Sydney Australia)

Are mushrooms talking to each other?

Eric Schank
Orangutans (Getty Images/Photo by James Keith)

Orangutans have their own "dialects"

Eric Schank
A cute goat (Getty Images)

America’s 30 most Googled slang terms

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
Clams in Malaysia (Ritzzuan Salim / EyeEm/Getty stock photos)

11 misheard phrases that make sense

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
Mister Ed the talking horse and Alan Young in a scene from the television series 'Mister Ed', circa 1960. (The Mister Ed Company/Getty Images)

Can any animal "speak" with buttons?

Nicole Karlis
George Orwell, Joan Didion and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Didion, Orwell and the death of language

John Berthelsen
Cat Got Your Tongue? (Getty Images/Auki)

What makes a cliché a cliché?

Kirk Hazen, Jordan Lovejoy - The Conversation
Cat (Getty Images/Giorgos Stamatelos)

Puns that work in more than one language

Elizabeth King - Mental Floss
Man with a chalk speech bubble (Getty Images/mattjeacock)

11 words you're probably mispronouncing

Amanda Green - Mental Floss
Looking up a word in the dictionary (Getty Images/JGI/Jamie Grill)

7 fake words now in the dictionary

Angela Tung - Mental Floss
Lisa Simpson and Ms. Hoover in "The Simpsons" (Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)

10 perfectly cromulent "Simpsons" words

Roger Cormier - Mental Floss
Computer screen showing the website for free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. (In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)

A fix for Wikipedia’s language problem

Yumiko Sato - Undark
A baby grey headed flying fox bat hangs with its mother on January 27, 2020 in Bomaderry, Australia. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Bats use baby talk

Ahana Aurora Fernandez - The Conversation
(Getty/visualspace)

The etymology of 15 Olympic words

John Kelly - Mental Floss
Doctor talking to distressed patient (Getty Images)

Words can hurt (or heal) in healthcare

Erin Petersen-Edge
A teenage boy enjoying corn after swimming (Getty Images/Roy JAMES Shakespeare)

The most misspelled word in each state

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
Woman looking over shoulder under question mark (Getty Images/Klaus Vedfelt)

Black activism through punctuation

Eurie Dahn - The Conversation
18th century headstone in a cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts that reads "Memento mori," a Latin phrase meaning, "Remember you will die" (iStock/Getty Images)

Latin phrases you pretend to understand

Kevin Fleming - Mental Floss
While it makes for a colorful analogy, comparing the brain to a muscle is inaccurate and misleading.

The neurological reason you say "um"

Adriel John Orena - Massive Science
A man walks past a mural by Mr. Gabriel Marques in Dublin (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

N-Word: a volcano kept active by racism

Sanya Osha - The Conversation
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