Linguistics expert Laurie Knox has taken to TikTok to list seven common word from the English language that many didn't ...

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For an author and illustrator of books about Hannah Arendt and Albert Einstein, 'vulgarizer' is actually a compliment.

This pithy word may only be three letters long, but it's deceptively complex. According to one lexicographer, it has 645 ...

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Words commonly used in association with video games and the name of a Dutch sweet treat are among the terms that have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The new additions come as part of ...

Danish director Mads Hedegaard had to invent new languages for the Stone Age epic “Stranger.” “I have a background in ...

Five years after the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) added 29 Nigerian loanwords, 20 more terms from Nigeria and Ghana have ...

When I went home for winter break, I was immediately hit with a question from my sister: “Are you raising your ya-ya-ya?” ...

The definition of ethnic cleansing is the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a ...