More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.

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In Japan, there’s a term for this phenomenon: tsundoku.

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President Donald Trump declared, by executive order, that English is the official language of the United States. To enforce that edict, his administration is making it more difficult for kids to learn ...