In her first piece of term, Staff Writer Lizzy Riley explores the benefits that reading as a child can have on language development

The free online word-guessing game Wordle has taken over the internet, a craze which started in by New Zealand players. This app that started as a romantic gift to support a partner has now become one of our most competitive daily activities. In this discussion, Linguistics Editor Stephanie Jat looks at the linguistic elements of word guessing, and explores the benefits of corpus linguistics in helping find an advantageous first guess. (All images of the game are screenshots from players of the web page.)

In this review, Brianna Mitchell discusses the pros and cons of using the free language app, Duolingo, and why it’s important to incorporate cultural interaction with language apps.

In this opinion piece, Dion Everett looks at the challenges that come with translation, and the tradition of being able to consume texts easily in English. Everett discusses his own experiences translating texts, and answers the question – can translation ever be true?

In this review, Staff Writer Kitty Liu shares her thoughts on Semicolon by Cecelia Watson and discusses this author’s views on linguistic prescriptivism.

In this article, Staff Writer Kitty Liu explores some differences in how Western and Eastern scholars reconstruct the phonology of 5th century BCE Chinese