I’ll admit that I’ve said it. I grew up around people who weren’t consciously racist, just using the language that had been normalized and acceptable in their insular circles during their bygone ...

This summer I’ve been learning Tamil. Not only is it the primary language spoken in Tamil Nadu, a state in Southern India, it’s my mother tongue — a language everybody else in my family speaks.

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 ...

Sometimes they describe an attribute. Or a moment. Or maybe just a vibe. These are the words from other languages that don't have a direct equivalent in English, and yet carry so much meaning. The ...