American culture recognizes each individual's written and verbal ideas to be legal property. Thus, borrowing words or ideas from another individual without crediting them is considered stealing, not a ...

Silent letters help distinguish homophones, but result from borrowing words from other languages and changes in pronunciation over time, complicating the learning process for non-native speakers.

We can't rework borrowed words as soon as they appear - we have to observe for a bit until it's clear that it's being used widely, after which we can step in Kim Hyeong-bae, a South Korean ...