It's a good time of the year to be messing around with words. The dark days of December bring the annual "best of" ...

FOR nearly 250 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica was a bookshelf-busting series of gilt-lettered tomes, often purchased to ...

The Washington Commanders switched to their current identity only recently, having had three other names prior to that.

Oxford notes that the term increased in usage frequency by 230% between 2023 and 2024. “Polarization” is the choice of ...

The American Historical Association, the largest association of professional historians in the U.S., passed a resolution this ...

English teachers might have told students the word "each" is pronoun that gets a singular verb, but that's only part of the ...

Headline writers have settled on 'awkward' to describe the Jan. 6 election certification — but is that the right word?

This Word of the Year (WOTY) has been chosen every year since at least 1990. According to Dictionary.com, “These words serve ...

Here we are at the end of the holiday season, a time of “glad tidings, peace, and good will toward all.” How ironic it is that Merriam-Webster, the dictionary people, recently released “polarization” ...

By Roger J. Kreuz Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s ...

While I wear the mantle of optimism, deep down I am a cynic. I am losing faith in the direction the human race is going, but ...

The 1960s were a particularly fruitful time for words abundant in our lexicon today. Scientific advancements gave rise to new ...