NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Maggie Rowe and Emily Garcés, the hosts of the podcast "50 Words for Snow," about words English ...

That phrase comes in second on the 2025 list, which just “dropped” (no. 4). Crowning the common offenders at no. 1 is “cringe ...

These words or phrases are selected by dictionaries and other language-related bodies ... publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary – refers to the supposed deterioration of a person ...

What if the Caribbean had its own written language? It’s an idea explored by a Martinique artist while in Miami, the region’s ...

The University of Nebraska at Kearney’s English Department is inviting Nebraska high school students to participate in the ...

and his patriotic vision for the original “American Dictionary of the English Language,” first published in 1828. For Americans to have their own dictionary “is not only important ...

Akhil Katyal talks about ways of grieving, the tricks of translation, and the quest for possible worlds in his new volume of ...

When the clock strikes midnight on New Year's, people around the world sing it in unison. Here's what to know about "Auld ...

Big houses and grand spaces leave lots of potential for some strange games. Melanie Cable-Alexander investigates.

Damion Searls, who has translated a Nobel laureate, believes his craft isn’t about transforming or reflecting a text. It’s about conjuring one’s experience of it.

He called it a “pretty young word,” in the scheme of the English language. “Polarized is a term that brings intensity to another word,” he continued, most frequently used in the U.S. to ...