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'I wanted the game to feel unlike anything else': How I invented hit board game League of Lexicon
League of the Lexicon. Emile - character illustration
Board games

'I wanted the game to feel unlike anything else': How I invented hit board game League of Lexicon

League of the Lexicon is a quiz game about words and language that started life as a way of distracting bored kids during lockdown
How tourism can bring endangered languages back from the brink
People sitting in a classroom listening to musicians
the future of travel

How tourism can bring endangered languages back from the brink

Are regional accents really disappearing?
Illustration of a boy with a speech bubble
Society

Are regional accents really disappearing?

‘It will be so emotional’: Rose Ayling-Ellis on BSL becoming an official language
Accessibility

‘It will be so emotional’: Rose Ayling-Ellis on BSL becoming an official language

To understand a language you need the culture that surrounds it
Culture

To understand a language you need the culture that surrounds it

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Arrival and the cosmic truth of language
Film

Arrival and the cosmic truth of language

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