Explore the historical context of vowel symbols in British English, which were originally selected to represent an ...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama turned 90 today. Alongside wishes from thousands of devotees, Prime Minister Modi also extended ...

Two other symbols already exist in English to produce the "th" sound: thorn (þ) and eth (ð).They were in use until the 15th century, so Daniels wonders why one of these symbols couldn't be ...

A text message that contains a series of non-English symbols and the words "effective power" is crashing iPhone apps and causing the phones to shut down.

The heart sign has entered the Oxford English Dictionary as the first graphical symbol to signify a word in the reference work's 127-year history. The symbol is among 45,437 new words and meanings ...

Eventually the plus and minus signs became universal, as did the English symbol for equality, but only after decades of famous mathematicians competing in these popularity contests to set the trends.

Bahujan Samaj Party’s Tamil Nadu General Secretary, Elangovan R, had filed a petition seeking a ban on the use of the ...

Punch was also among classic English symbols Entries will be assembled in an online collection and each quarter more will be announced. Jerry Doyle, managing director of ICONS, which is running the ...

Gemma's English VA is right with us on Monster Hunter Wild's confusing menus, which makes me feel a little better for having to Google symbols all the time. News.

Watermelons are not the only symbol to catch on with activists. Other signs of global Palestinian solidarity include keys, spoons, olives, doves, poppies and the keffiyeh scarf.