Bargatze portrayed George Washington for a second time to explain some of the unusual rules of the English language in the ...

Suppose you never had a teacher who taught you “grammar,” by which I mean how to diagram sentences, distinguish singular ...

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

Shashi Tharoor’s latest book misses a trick in not mining Gen Z and Alpha vocabulary as deeply as it deserves to be ...

There are 26 letters in the alphabet but when you start to string them together, there are more than 170,000 options in ...

Take John 3:16 as an example. It was Tyndale who first translated it into English as 'For God so loveth the world that he ...

Due to the large number of readers who appreciated the recent column on loanwords from around the world, I am dedicating ...

I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!’ Trump posted after the entertainer endorsed his opponent. There’s a lot of meaning in one of those four uppercase words.

Unlike in British English, Americans frequently use the word ‘skunk’ as a verb as well. When you say that the rival team ...

Alaya Muldrow spells words during a reading lesson at Taylor Elementary School. Like other schools in Indiana, Taylor has ...

Ahead of the election, the Orange County Register compiled a list of questions from our readers to pose to the candidates who ...

The word “academic” derives from Plato’s Academy, which he founded on ground that was named after the legendary Greek hero Academos, or Hekademos. And academic was someone who taught or studied at the ...