Most people walk around believing they have a pretty good sense of how English works. We learn the alphabet, pick up some ...

Place names are far more than just a name assigned to a position on the map. They are linguistic archives that hold data ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

Lake Char­gog­ga­gogg­man­chaug­ga­gogg­chau­bu­na­gun­ga­maugg, and people who looked it up online, had Merriam-Webster flummoxed.

Maybe you know that victuals are supplies of food, that chicanery is deception, and that a skein is a coiled length of yarn. But do you know how to pronounce victuals, chicanery, and skein? The quiz ...

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In a cabinet meeting convened on 7 October 2024 to mark the first anniversary of the Hamas attack, Netanyahu called for the ...

Nambitha Ben-Mazwi has secured a groundbreaking new role as Moya in Tatort, German-language television’s longest-running ...

After failing in his first attempt to get on the show, Mochrie spent eight years as a regular until it ended in 1998. He then ...

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“The lexicon of a foreign language is like a map of a country you’ve never been to,” says psychologist Tim Lomas, a lecturer at the University of East London. While travelers tend to think that seeing ...