Gabe Henry shares a humorous 500-year history of the Spelling Movement.. and all the rhymes, rules, and endless exceptions ...

Groundbreaking research suggests fungi may communicate using electrical signals, resembling a language with up to 50 'words.' ...

Authors of the 10th Annual Wandering Words Sidewalk Poetry Competition will be recognized at the Second Sunday Summer Concert on Sunday, June 8, 2025.

Are you a dingbatter? This word is used by local people in Ocracoke, referring to the crowds of tourists and other visitors.

Parents at Muskogee High School have expressed concern over a culinary class assignment that involved making "prison ramen," ...

Milly Francis was the first Native American and woman to receive a Congressional medal of honor for saving the life of a ...

By Loretta Carr Let’s see. Now that English has been declared the official language of the United States, how am I going to ...

On Thursday, The Gazette set off a language storm when it reported that Montreal’s transit agency had dropped the English word Go from its pro-Habs bus messages following a citizen’s complaint ...

Well, not any longer. There is a word for it now, courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The expression is called — Gigil The Oxford English Dictionary has included a list of ...

Spice bag', 'ludraman' and 'class' are among the Irish English words that have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its latest update. The OED announced a host of new additions as part ...

Eight Irish-English words have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its latest update. A number of new words including eight Hiberno-English/Irish-English ...

Eight Irish English, or Hiberno-English, words that are "untranslatable" or "cannot be translated into another" are included in the Oxford English Dictionary's (OED) March 2025 update.