Marianne Faithfull, the wild woman of London's swinging '60s who survived drug addiction, homelessness, two comas, cancer and COVID-19, died at age 78, after a singing career that began as ...

Linguistics expert Laurie Knox has taken to TikTok to list seven common word from the English language that many didn't ...

Monsters are everywhere. Vampires (like the one in the recently released Nosferatu) and zombies are the most popular of the ...

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Christopher Cannon makes Chaucer's complete works available in a new ...

Recently, the Oxford English Dictionary, OED listed 22 Nigerian into its vocabulary Kingsley Ugwuanyi, OED consultant who ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Southern Living magazine once described “y’all” as “the quintessential Southern pronoun.” It’s as iconically Southern as sweet tea and grits.

The new words depict an average Nigerian's daily life, as well as the strong street mannerisms and Pidgin English ...

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

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

As our own cultural moment in the United States has included some prominent conversions to Catholicism, what might we learn ...

According to the website languagemonitor.com, a new word is coined every 98 minutes. The English language passed the one millionth word in 2009. At any rate, when we are awake, we are surrounded ...