Orthography

Firefighters from the Sequoia National Forest Cobra 4 hand crew mop up a spot fire

Meet the firefighters from American Samoa who sing to stay motivated on the job

Music

It’s part of fa’asamoa — the Samoan way of life.

A road trip to end typos

The World

The Flame Alphabet

Arts, Culture & Media

Young Latino Readers Search for Themselves in Books

The World

Podcast: The Perfect Love Song

Global Hit

Retweeting Bad Grammar

The World in Words

Is it wise to correct other people’s typos, misspellings and grammatical errors when retweeting?

The World

Podcast: Memorizing the Koran and a New ‘Speak English’ Test

The World in Words

A Spelling Bee for Muslim World, a language proficiency test for immigrants to Britain, and Alaskans learn an African language.

The World

Defending grammar one apostrophe at a time

Arts, Culture & Media

Between texting, instant messages, and, LOL!, the web, grammar has been under a steady onslaught in our modern times. John Richards, founder and chairman of the Apostrophe Protection Society, joins us from Lincolnshire, England.

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Palleja bar patrons win El Gordo

A few Spaniards got some good economic news Wednesday. They won the annual Christmas lottery, known as El Gordo. Hundreds of patrons of a local bar all chipped in for a winning ticket. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports from Palleja.

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Chinese bilingual ballots

Arts, Culture & Media

The World’s Alex Gallafent explores the complexities of Chinese bilingual ballots. Transliteration into Chinese is a complicated, sometimes confusing business.