Headline writers have settled on 'awkward' to describe the Jan. 6 election certification — but is that the right word?

Jieun Kiaer, a professor of Korean linguistics at the University of Oxford's Asian and Middle Eastern Studies who serves as the Korean language consultant for the dictionary, told Yonhap News Agency ...

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 ...

W hen a person has problems that threaten to overwhelm them, it is an unhelpful friend or observer who says they have issues ...

Opinion: As we enter the 2025 Montana legislative session, prepare yourself for a plethora of education bills.

Ubiquitous amongst the slew of education bills is a single word that everyone uses, but the meaning of which varies greatly. That word is accountability.

But there are also many old, out-of-use words for very specific types of writers (and also terrible writers). At the risk of ...

The world's largest consumer electronics and information technology exhibition "CES 2025" will open in Las Vegas tomorrow ...

It says something about the past year when the people who put out the Oxford Dictionary chose “brain rot” as the words of ...

The renowned author and behavioural scientist reveals how the misunderstood art of manifestation – grounded in science and strategy – can unlock creativity, drive and success.

The year 2024 was marked by another buzzword to be "mindful and demure", reflected a cultural shift towards subtlety, restraint, and calmness. This term, historically associated with modesty and ...

In a sign of the times, 2024 whizzed by in the instant it took for a bullet to travel 150 yards from a rooftop through a ...