lingua

Lego’s effectiveness as a visual lingua franca must be both a point of pride for The Lego Group and, at times, its bane.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026

This entails programs to promote standard Chinese as the national lingua franca, instill pride in Chinese cultural heritage and exert stronger central control over regions with large ethnic-minority populations such as Tibet and Xinjiang.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

His Russian has improved in prison, where it is a lingua franca among the inmates.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

Somalia is to introduce Swahili, the lingua franca of East Africa, to its national curriculum, the president has announced.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025

Few spoke English, and the lingua franca was an amalgam of many tongues known as Fanagalo.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Reminded that technically the war was over for Russia, Kisselev confessed a "lapsus linguae."

From Time Magazine Archive

Miss Sallianna wound up by saying, that it would be an affair of rare and opprobrious interest; and, as a comedy, would be positively deleterious, which was probably a lapsus linguae for "delicious."

From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke

Scotchman,—"A lapsus linguae, that might have been made by the greatest orators, ancient or modern; by Cicero or Chatham, by Burke, or by 'the fluent Murray.'"

From Tales and Novels — Volume 04 by Maria Edgeworth

"The devil they do, ma'am!" bolted out Richard, gruffly; and then, ashamed of his lapsus linguae, screwed up his lips firmly, and glared on the company with an eye of indignant fire.

From My Novel — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

Even a lapsus linguae, "you uns," was unmistakable amidst the high-flown periods.

From The Raid of The Guerilla and Other Stories by Charles Egbert Craffock