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 ...

Scholasticide and domicide are among several new terms that has been used to describe Israel's actions in Gaza.

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?

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 ...

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

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If you search this question on the answer, you’ll find a plethora of definitions. Though the official definition according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary is that the Internet is an electronic ...

“Brain rot” – WOTY at Oxford University Press, publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary – refers to the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially ...

William Webster, who led the agencies under both Democratic and Republican presidents, made the comment in a letter to senators, saying he was “deeply concerned” about both picks. Patel ...