The most important predictor of vocabulary learning is the number of words that children hear from adults (for example during interactions, conversations, play, book reading). As children learn new ...

We introduce cost aggregation to open-vocabulary semantic segmentation, which jointly aggregates both image and text modalities within the matching cost. For further details and visualization results, ...

A Latin word for “cleverness” or “skillfulness,” facetiae came to be used to refer to a collection of witty sayings in 16th-century English. But things took a turn for the worse in Victorian slang, ...

Don't be a zob. | photovideostock/E+/Getty Images (Letter Z), Justin Dodd (speech bubble) Borrowed into English from Yiddish (and descended from a German word meaning “juicy”), zaftig refers to a ...

English is full of words that sound alike, look alike, or seem so familiar that we stop questioning how we use them. But even fluent speakers mix up pairs like “imply” and “infer,” “complement” and ...

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...

Children are losing interest, staff are heading for the exit, and a probe has revealed alleged serious misconduct. Can Solomon Lew, the billionaire king of retailing, turn things around? Stationery ...