Swaying through moral crises and social revolutions, Jeffrey M Pilcher’s Hopped Up explains how beer took over the world ...

Before writer-politician Shashi Tharoor made his presence felt at The Hindu’s annual literary extravaganza Lit for Life on ...

National Thesaurus Day, on January 18th, honors Peter Mark Roget, the author of Roget’s Thesaurus, who was born on this day ...

The first word on our list that can’t be fully translated because it carries emotion behind it we don’t tend to pack into ...

Canadian mining giant Barrick halted its operations in Mali after the government seized gold stocks worth $245 million. What's the story behind the Nigerian words added to the Oxford English ...

Babel, whose original derivation from the Hebrew name for Babylon dates even further back to Akkadian—an extinct East Semitic ...

I was thrilled last Tuesday when Kingsley Ugwuanyi, a Nigerian English consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary, ...

By TJ Ray Columnist The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.  Perhaps ...

It's a good time of the year to be messing around with words. The dark days of December bring the annual "best of" ...

Teaching children how to identify and combine parts of words is an important component of a comprehensive approach to reading ...

Find out why teaching English spelling explicitly is essential for literacy and why shortchanging spelling instruction is ...

David Smyth joined team RW to experience the first UK Ekiden and delves into the history, culture and significance of the long-distance relay race format, which is the centrepiece of Japanese running ...