Words and sounds can establish a rhythm for your poem and capture the reader or listener's imagination, author Michelle ...

The Jewish High Holy Days weighed heavily upon me. On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, my eyes fixed on the Hebrew text of my ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to comment on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or less and are ...

It also provides room for hours of fun and class activities such as filling in the initial letters of some words, reproducing the sounds, tracing and colouring of given images, using the clues ...

But pulling off a British accent is easier said than done. London-based comedian, presenter, and self-described "chronically ...

We lose roughly 57,000 people in the U.S. each week, most of whom never get a mention in the newspaper. In journalistic terms ...

People were smiling, partly because Election Day has always been a social event and partly because there was relief that a ...

These books all offer a window onto lives that are different from our own, but no less interesting, important or special.

“In fact,” it continues, “the presence of so many imitative words in language ... is alive and well in comic books and comic strips. In his article Four-Color Sound: A Peircean Semiotics ...

Randy Newman’s ingenious lyricism earned him devoted fans but not mainstream success. His turn to Hollywood would bring wider ...

And if you’re a true dictionary lover, then you can always name your child “Merriam” or “Webster,” in honor of the oldest dictionary publisher in the United States. All jokes aside, word names offer ...

In “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country,” Robert ... I don’t like people who never come out of the meadow. Or never make a sound louder than ‘Ah.’” No parsley, sage, rosemary and ...