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

FOR nearly 250 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica was a bookshelf-busting series of gilt-lettered tomes, often purchased to ...

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

By Roger J. Kreuz Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s ...

Once an icon of the 20th century seen as obsolete in the 21st, Encyclopaedia Britannica—now known as just Britannica— is all ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary chose "menorah" as its Word ... Merriam-Webster noted, but English speakers use the word menorah, as well.

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, gingerbread gets its name ... Mistletoe originally stemmed from the old English words "Mistel" and "Tan," which meant "dung twig." ...

“The basic job of the dictionary is to tell the truth about words,” the Merriam-Webster editor continued. “We’ve had ...

“Brain rot” – WOTY at Oxford University Press, publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary – refers to the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially ...

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

From Merriam-Webster's 'polarization' and Oxford University ... "Brain rot" - WOTY at Oxford University Press, publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary - refers to the supposed deterioration ...

“Brat” is no longer negative. It now means an “estetik” trend defined by party-animal antics, cool-girl style and messy ...