Can you spot our anomaly? And if you do, can you say what it is without spoiling it? The answer is as plain as the nose on your face, or the cream in your coffee, or the vowels in your alphabet. The ...

THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six ...

Premiering this week, 'The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language' tells the true story of Holocaust survivors and émigré scholars in NYC racing to salvage a civilization ...

I'm sure you can think of words that come from Hebrew or Yiddish — religious words like rabbi and torah, food words like bagel and latke, cultural words like chutzpah and verklempt. But there's a very ...

When we learn the letters of the English alphabet, we just remember them in order, from A to Z. But have you ever thought ...

Japan has an entire alphabet dedicated to words borrowed from abroad, known as katakana. It's common to use English or other foreign vocabulary to refer to everyday items such as pens or t-shirts, but ...

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the ...