The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added seven new Korean words, including “dalgona” and “maknae”. According to the ...

I met Merl Reagle for the first time at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT) back in 2015. We didn’t talk for long ...

Do you sometimes wonder whether ‘data’ should be pronounced as dEYta or dAta? It could be the data we gather in the course of research ...

Though Chen Po-jung struck gold selling English in 1970s Taiwan, in 1980 he decided to bring his family to America, a dream ...

When headline writers try to describe the weirdness of Jan. 6, and the surreal experience Vice President Kamala Harris has had today, the word “awkward” keeps coming up. “Harris Faces an Awkward ...

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 ...

It says something about the past year when the people who put out the Oxford Dictionary chose “brain rot” as the words of ...

This Word of the Year (WOTY) has been chosen every year since at least 1990. According to Dictionary.com, “These words serve ...

I trace that process in my new book, The Cancel Culture Panic. Fears of “PC” and “cancel culture” took varied paths in the ...

With 2024 (and Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour) firmly in the rearview mirror, it’s time to look ahead to some of the biggest and ...

Anchor] The U.S. Congress has officially certified Trump's presidential victory according to procedures.Coincidentally, it's ...

To write with “style” and with what college English teachers want, you must avoid word errors and strive for “fresh, usual ...