Did you know English didn’t really start out as English? A huge chunk of the language actually comes from elsewhere. In fact, ...

Tired of learning new English words only to forget them the next day? In this lesson, Claire shares five proven strategies to ...

English is a quirky, often confusing language that's been shaped and influenced by many others. As such, it has a massive variety of words—but here are some we think rise above the crowd and deserve ...

Figuring out how many words there are in the English language is complicated for a number of reasons. Let’s start with its roots. What about persona non grata, “an unacceptable or unwanted person,” ...

“As professional linguists and historians of English we were intrigued by the challenge of developing a list of lost words that are still relevant to modern life, and that we could potentially ...

Reconstruction of Taino village, via Michal Zalewski//CC BY-SA 3.0 When Columbus landed in the New World in 1492, the first humans he encountered were the Taino, an Arawak people, then the most ...

My parents and my wife’s parents have a good relationship. It’s nice. It’s rare. And they use a word to describe each other: machatunim. We hear it a lot. My wife’s dad, at home: “I spoke to the ...

The Pilgrims had plenty of thanks to give the Wampagnog Indians in 1621, around the time they had a certain special meal you might have heard of. Members of that American Indian tribe had been ...

The English and the Irish have a lot that sets them apart but much more that brings them together, not the least of which is language! While we acknowledge the influence that Shakespeare’s tongue has ...

Dictionary.com has officially revealed its newest Word of the Year. The online dictionary announced Wednesday that "67" is ...