Effective communication lies at the heart of human connection. It helps us collaborate with each other, solve problems and build relationships. And communicating clearly is a major consideration for ...

Your brain responds to words in ways that affect your experience of the world. Taking care to use words that don’t cause harm to others can help protect them from trauma. We’ve all heard the saying, ...

Imagine you are using an internet service to watch American films. Perhaps you decide to watch Mixtape, a movie recently made by Netflix. My gosh! This store is so rad! You might ask yourself about ...

English speakers already have over a million words at our disposal – so why are we adding 1,000 new ones a year to the lexicon? And how? As dictionary publishers never tire of reminding us, our ...

Of course, it's impossible to provide an exact number of words in English, since new words are being added to the dictionary, and falling out of use, pretty much constantly. But what's an approximate ...

Linguist who compiled list of words says they help tell story of life during pandemic From coronamüde (tired of Covid-19) to Coronafrisur (corona hairstyle), a German project is documenting the huge ...

The English language is full of words that seem overstuffed with unnecessary letters, feel like they should be spelled a different way, or just don't make sense. Here are some of our favorites, ...

If you live in the UK or are familiar with its wide range of accents and dialects, you can probably tell the difference between a posh or upper-class accent, (think the “King’s English”) and one more ...