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As a hockey player, Andrew Bray was familiar with the slang thrown around the "barn" (hockey arena). As a linguist, he wanted to understand how sport-specific jargon evolved and permeated across teams ...

University of Rochester linguist Andrew Bray started out studying the evolution of the trademark sports jargon used in hockey for his master’s thesis. For instance, a hockey arena is a “barn,” while ...

An Italian woman suddenly started speaking English with a Canadian accent, and specialists couldn't figure out why, according to a report. The woman, 50, went to the emergency room after a five-minute ...

I remember arriving at the Halifax airport after my first long trip abroad. It was 2014, and I'd just spent eight months in Europe mostly in countries where English was a second language. I had spent ...