President Donald Trump hasn’t minced words about the larger message he’s trying to send the world with the U.S. military raid ...

Respondents to an annual Michigan college survey of overused and misused words and phrases say “6-7” is “cooked” and should ...

New year, new list of obnoxious slang terms proliferating society — from mind-numbing rap song catch phrases to good words ...

The key themes that defined the year behind us will also shape the one ahead. The most-read articles of 2025 tracked a return ...

Daily Strands guide with theme hints, gameplay tips, and today’s clue breakdown to help you solve the NYT word-find puzzle!

Before babies learn to use the language spoken in their home, they babble and coo, playing with sound. That's baby talk, and baby talk sounds similar the world over. Babbling and cooing are all part ...

Your mom asked you to pick up shelled pistachios at the store, but you’d better ask whether she wants nuts still in their shells or those with their shells already removed. Because the word shelled ...

"Demure" is Dictionary.com's word of the year, with all the credit for its popularity going to lifestyle and beauty influencer Jools Lebron and her catchphrase, "very demure, very mindful." "Demure" ...

From aquabob to zawn, writer Robert Macfarlane's collection of unusual, achingly poetic words for nature creates a lexicon we all can learn from. Years ago, nature writer extraordinaire Robert ...

In a previous post, I examined the psychological power of conjunctions, especially that warm, fuzzy, inclusive conjunction: and. Here we expand our focus to the psychological power of words in general ...

"The ick" and "boop" are among more than 3,200 new words and phrases added to the Cambridge Dictionary this year. The latest additions - which have gained prominence in online and youth culture in ...