Pop-up Hong Kong tea restaurant, or 'cha chaan teng', at art fair exposes the Cantonese term and bolsters the case for ...

The 1944 thriller 'Gaslight' gave rise to a useful new word that describes coercive, toxic relationships in personal life and ...

Reproductive rights measures are on the ballots in 10 states after heated debates over how to describe their impact on ...

Some words, like ‘motel,’ ‘brunch,’ and ‘sitcom,’ are obvious portmanteaux. But the portmanteaux on this list are undercover.

French maritime authorities report 2 migrant deaths in English Channel, pushing total so far this year above 50 dead ...

IEnglish Language. The Year's Work in English Studies, Vol. 102, Issue. 1, p. 1. Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) is the most comprehensive English dialect dictionary ever ...

In Old English, the word man was a general word for people. The word for man as in male was wer. Wer really only survives in ...

On a recent trip to France, my mission was to eat like a French woman - or at least to find out just how they stay so slim. This is a country where on one corner, you find a boulangerie with mouth ...

French maritime authorities pulled the bodies of two migrants from the English Channel on Wednesday, pushing the count of dead and missing in French waters so far this year above 50. Authorities said ...

Dictionary Day on October 16 celebrates the birth of Noah Webster, an American writer who was born in 1758. Webster is best-known for publishing the first dictionary in 1806, which he continued to ...

Former President Donald Trump waxed poetic about his love for tariffs — including his love for the word itself.

A new biography, “The Brothers Grimm” by Ann Schmiesing, explores the lives of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and how they created ...