Native-speakerism in English is an ideology that privileges British or American English and assumes that native speakers are inherently more qualified to teach English as a second or foreign language ...

A Gaston County native, former N.C. Speaker of the House Carl J. Stewart Jr. passed away Dec. 23, 2025, at the age of 89. Stewart’s obituary said he attended Duke University and Duke Law School after ...

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This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. And yet, what made me a near Nabokov completist was not that his English was perfectly assimilated but rather ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - President Donald Trump has pardoned the disgraced former Speaker of the Tennessee House, Glen Casada, and one of his co-conspirators after their corruption convictions and ...

A Scranton native’s Tony-winning play will lead off the Scranton Shakespeare Festival’s winter season. “The Humans,” by Stephen Karam, will be staged Nov. 28-30. The timing, the weekend after ...

HONOLULU (AP) — After water polo practice at her school atop a hill overlooking Honolulu Harbor, Kapua Ong marvels at the sunset. “I do feel proud of myself for getting in because not everyone gets ...

Imagine this: You turn to a colleague and say, “Could you make me a coffee, please?” They look at you and pause. Half a second passes. A second. Maybe two. And then they say, “Sure, I’ll make you a ...

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