Tired of being policed by ‘Grammar Nazis’? Are you sure you're speaking English correctly? This double-edged piece argues for ...

Linguistics expert Laurie Knox has taken to TikTok to list seven common word from the English language that many didn't ...

Laurie Knox has provided a list of seven common words in the English language you may not have realised are acronyms of terms ...

The word 'Aura', with its Latin and Ancient Greek origins saying it as another word for wins, is described in the Oxford Eng ...

Monsters are everywhere. Vampires (like the one in the recently released Nosferatu) and zombies are the most popular of the ...

The defunct feature used to let users search for definitions and online articles about highlighted words and phrases.

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

Whether you’re a full-blown bibliophile or someone who simply enjoys a good page-turner, chances are you’ve come across The ...

This is from a YouGov survey from just a few years ago: nearly half of Americans say they believe in ghosts, and more than one-third say they have personally felt the presence of a ghost.

At the end of 2024, the Oxford English Dictionary announced its word of the year: brain rot. The first recorded use of the ...

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

While he very much believed in his own epigram that “when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in ...