Discover 12 everyday words commonly used in the U.S. that aren't actually English. Learn their fascinating foreign origins ...

A single English verb carries more definitions than any other in the language. Lexicographers have confirmed that the word ...

Welcome, wordsmiths and language lovers!📚You may think you have an impressive vocabulary, but it’s about time to put that ...

Terms like ‘affordability,’ ‘socialism’ and ‘famine’ take on new, politically convenient meanings.

Below are 12 Shakespearean words that quietly changed their meaning over the last few centuries. In Shakespeare's time, ...

English is a quirky, often confusing language that's been shaped and influenced by many others. As such, it has a massive variety of words—but here are some we think rise above the crowd and deserve ...

Of course, it's impossible to provide an exact number of words in English, since new words are being added to the dictionary, and falling out of use, pretty much constantly. But what's an approximate ...

Pseudo-anglicisms are words in other languages that seem like English but aren’t. Though some people are still concerned about them creeping into use, writes Matthew Anderson. Before a special night ...