Some of the most frequently used words in English have two syllables, like “people”, “common”, “about”, “after”, “before”.

We've taken Merriam-Webster's online voting results of the words we love, hate, can't pronounce or have been using wrong, to muse on the English language.

Noah Webster was the patriot armed with a pen. He defined 12,000 new words in the wake of the American Revolution, using ...

What does the o in o’clock stand for?The punctuation mark after the o and before the clock signifies that something is ...

Around the world, people of Jamaican heritage are starting to reconnect with the island's powerful language – and its complex history.

There’s almost a surprising bit of good news in there if you squint: As hard as it is to believe, Eric Adams is the first ...