Susan Burritt of Chicago just had a wonderful letter in the Tribune (“Happy to be Irish,” March 12) about how she discovered her Irish heritage through a DNA test. Her letter followed up David McGrath ...

How did Polish vowels grow little tails? Who put the dot on the letter 'ż'? When do letters sing and how have typos altered the sense of literary works? Join us on a journey into the intricacies of ...

Polish language experts started a campaign Thursday to preserve its challenging system of diacritical marks, saying the tails, dots and strokes are becoming obsolete under the pressure of IT and speed ...

Within minutes of seeing the delicate letters and postcards held at the German auction house, museum curator Joanna Lang began frantically sending text messages to her bosses in Poland. She was ...