Dictionary Day on October 16 celebrates the birth of Noah Webster, an American writer who was born in 1758. Webster is best-known for publishing the first dictionary in 1806, which he continued to ...

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 ...

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

The 1944 thriller 'Gaslight' gave rise to a useful new word that describes coercive, toxic relationships in personal life and ...

The Oxford University Press (OUP) announced the launch of a trilingual Sanskrit-Hindi-English dictionary to make the Sanskrit ...

The noun beffa is often used as part of a popular Italian expression: oltre al danno anche la beffa, which is usually ...

The Telugu language faces significant challenges due to a preference for English, lack of vocabulary standardization, and ...

Dr. Snarf says, “I require strict attention to my compelling lectures.” The usual response of grammarians to “all right” is ...

The lines between what’s morbidly fascinating and sexually appealing are blurred when it comes to this Spanish word.

As you have probably guessed, I am a writer. Between these articles and my novels, I write thousands of words each week. One ...

Around the world in 101 essays. These essays are an ‘expanded and augmented’ version of Shashi Tharoor’s World of Words column in the Khaleej ...

In response to Trudeau's statement, "Once again, we see the leader of the Opposition is pushing a 'brokenist' vision of ...