This pithy word may only be three letters long, but it's deceptively complex. According to one lexicographer, it has 645 ...

In 2025, by my count, there are over 650 words with some sort of medical significance that have lexicographic anniversaries.

Why is it that a word that you feel so viscerally, doesn’t really exist in the dictionary? Our world is overflowing with ...

Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson are seeking a first European figure skating gold since Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean in 1994 ...

Slowly but surely, linguistic communities are benefiting from initiatives to promote local languages. A French–Ewe dictionary ...

First there's Blossom, which is M-W's take on Spelling Bee, and after playing for a few days I think I actually prefer ...

Long, complex passwords with bcrypt take 27,154 years to crack, but reused or breached credentials remain a top vulnerability ...

Communicating with words is how humans create connections and translate experiences and emotions. Words are not simply ...

Like people, words have birthdays. My definition of the birthday of a word is the year in which it first appeared in a ...

Definitions can play an important role in legislation. Defining words or phrases is done to provide the reader of the ...

Channel 4 aired an episode of Countdown recently saw host Colin Murray, co-host Rachel Riley and guest star Nicki Chapman react to a word suggested by Susie Dent ...

COUNTDOWN has had a classic moment where a rude word was spelled out – leaving Rachel Riley blushing. The Channel 4 show has ...