Few words so rile language purists as the use of the adverb “literally” in a figurative sense, as in, “That movie literally blew my mind.” But as a linguist who studies how English has changed over ...

A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he doesn’t speak, has won the board ...

It's hard to equate chocolate mousse with creamy savory mayonnaise, but this off-putting name was initially used to describe ...

The original Honda HR-V was quirky and interestingly weird, a pocket-sized pretend SUV that tapped into a new and growing ...

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This rags-to-riches yarn, Insta Millionaire, is one of the most popular stories on Pocket FM, an Indian audio streaming app.

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The course consists of four parts: word formation (morphology), the history of English words, the meaning of words, and lexicography, i.e. the principles of dictionary creation. In the first part of ...

Depending on who you ask, the results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election rattled the country or were cause for ...

Oxford’s 2024 Word of the Year is more than a century old, but that doesn’t mean it’s not incredibly relevant in 2024.

Following a contentious presidential election, is it any surprise the Merriam-Webster word of the year is “polarization”?