Kim Hyeong-bae, a South Korean linguist, had a problem: how to translate the word "deepfake" into Korean. A senior researcher ...

The word 'church' in common language has many meanings depending on the context. This is the story ...

English, with about a third of its words rooted in French, is a prime example of how language transforms based on society.

The lazy urge to use two simple words instead of a concise, challenging one in our daily lives. If you feel these words are ...

With around 273,000 headwords — for example, if you look up the word “cat” in a dictionary, “cat” is the headword — in the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, but only 171,476 of them ...

Finger Lakes Community College professor Trista Merrill's love of words leads to successful scholarship program.

Linguistics expert Laurie Knox has taken to TikTok to list seven common word from the English language that many didn't ...

Then, by way of an entry into the institute’s public glossary of reworked foreign words, it was released back into the world.

In a world with auto-correct, Google, and apps like Grammarly, spelling has become less important. Still, knowing the most difficult words to spell in English might come in handy. When writing a ...

The Gullah Geechee people created their own language. Here are some common words along with their translations.

A municipality in Tuscany has taken a drastic step: it is now banning English words in official communications. The reason: ...