While it is natural for people to focus on their immediate needs, maintaining a healthy and sustainable system requires ...

Mathews Memorial Library visited Mathews Elementary School on Oct. 15, again handing out personal dictionaries to third grade ...

Even though school was out, Jackie Hamilton’s class was always in session for her two sons. Her daily assignment was simple: ...

Cha-cha felt like the last straw for Robert Drewe. Just hearing “haitch” – that aspirated consonant – was hard enough for the ...

Functional chaos is how the system works. A point often made by Alison Moore, the Macquarie Dictionary’s chief editor, when dealing with semantic lobbyists, those keen to alter a word’s entry ...

Knowledge keeper curates resources to help anyone with a library card learn Skwxwú7mesh Sníchim and help revive a language ...

A proliferation of acronyms across the French Republic is sowing total confusion, but no one can make it stop. ‘We’ve gone ...

Blackpink's Rosé continues to take the global music scene by storm through her collaboration with Bruno Mars, "APT." ...

In Old English, the word man was a general word for people. The word for man as in male was wer. Wer really only survives in ...

I’m blowing out my voice to get this sucker done,” Trump told the crowd after his mic stopped working mid-rally.

Let us not pretend, however, that, following the rise of US popular culture from the 1950s, the increased adoption of ...

Some words, like ‘motel,’ ‘brunch,’ and ‘sitcom,’ are obvious portmanteaux. But the portmanteaux on this list are undercover.