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

In 2018 a study showed that Winston-Salem was in need of about 16,000 new affordable housing units. And according to the N.C.

The Washington Commanders switched to their current identity only recently, having had three other names prior to that.

Fresh vanilla beans have no smell whatsoever, either. They’re “sweated” and exposed to the sun for 10 days before being ...

Oxford notes that the term increased in usage frequency by 230% between 2023 and 2024. “Polarization” is the choice of ...

Word nerds unite every January 9 and choose carefully their, well, words. While the origins of this holiday are unknown, many ...

Scholasticide and domicide are among several new terms that has been used to describe Israel's actions in Gaza.

English teachers might have told students the word "each" is pronoun that gets a singular verb, but that's only part of the ...

Headline writers have settled on 'awkward' to describe the Jan. 6 election certification — but is that the right word?

Given the events of the year that just concluded, it’s no wonder that the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year — announced early last ...

Manifesting freedom from brain rot’ and other attempts to encase our aspirations in words” FOR several years now, at yearend, ...

According to Merriam-Webster, "rejuvenate" is intended for mature audiences. TEMPLE, Texas — The first Word of the Day in the ...