In an age when ‘drip’ is a compliment and ‘extra’ is not, it is a very fine line between speaking properly and coming across ...

Henry W Fowler, author of Modern English Usage (1926), and Wilson Follett, author of Modern American Usage (1966), both included “barbarisms” as headwords in their guides. Fowler defined them as ...

But with more than half a million entries in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) alone as a starting point, it’s fair to say English is on the heftier side. Not all those hundreds of thousands of ...

But more interesting, at least to word-collectors like me, is that their names all come from Native American languages.  They ...

One thing I like to do when I’m reading and writing is to train a spotlight on a particular word and find as much out as I ...

OPINION: As my kids get older, my beef with the English language often forces me to decide between handing down my gripes and ...

If you're from an Irish family- well, even if you aren't- chances are you have a someone with the name Sean in your midst.

Greek orzo salad is a light cold pasta salad full of tender orzo pasta, bright lemon, flavorful herbs, and lots of crunchy ...

From TikTok to the kitchen table, words like "rizzler" and "skibidi" are finding a foothold in the lexicon of today's tweens.

We spend a lot of time fighting about words. Is a tomato a vegetable or a fruit? A lot of time has been spent—not to say wasted—arguing this point. We think of fruit as being sweet, and a tomato is ...

The game has been a major hit since it went public in 2021. Nicholas T Ansell/Press Association via AP Images Tuesday's Wordle answer is "FULLY." According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary it means, ...

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has criticized a tour company for allegedly misinforming fans about her books. Rowling, who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was inspired by the city to write the ...