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

It’s the kind of zippy, immersive crime thriller that reminds you of the international lingua franca that Scorsese all but invented with “Goodfellas.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025

Except that English is its chief lingua franca and Newspeak its official language, it is not centralized in any way.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Una Of The Hill Country 1911 by Mary Noailles Murfree

"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 — Volume 05 by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

In 1532 appeared his Thesaurus linguae Latinae, a dictionary of Latin words and phrases, upon which for two years he had toiled incessantly, with no other assistance than that of Thierry of Beauvais.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

The poems ascribed to him possess great spirit, and prove that he was, as Giraldus terms him, "linguae dicacis," in its best sense.

From The itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales by Giraldus Cambrensis