The “sweet snack consisting of two small, very thin, circular waffles sandwiched together with a syrup or caramel filling” – ...

The beloved Dutch treat, stroopwafel, has officially been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), marking a significant ...

Market participants might be wary of opinions that begin with a recitation of academic literature and then turn to dictionaries. The former tend to ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...