Back in grade school, words like "onomatopoeia" and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" seemed insanely complicated and long. Surprisingly, neither of these is the ...

The English language is notoriously difficult to learn for those who don’t grow up speaking it at home. Those of us for whom it is a first language aren’t very good about learning other ones. However, ...

The Middle East’s cultural influence on the world is vast and enduring – evident not only in food, fashion, mathematics and medicine, but also in the global lingua franca, the English language that ...

Are you a locavore(+1) who decries the tapafication(+2) of restaurants or a latte liberal(+3) on the fence about Billary(+4)? No matter, the explosion of new words in the English language is enough to ...

We recently wrote about the words women don't know that men do and vice versa. But the meanings of some words confuse people of both genders. The Center for Reading Research analyzed the first 480,000 ...

English is a quirky, often confusing language that's been shaped and influenced by many others. As such, it has a massive variety of words—but here are some we think rise above the crowd and deserve ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from 20 Words // 20 Seconds You have 20 seconds. For each prompt, type an English word that meets the criteria above. Words that you have used for an earlier ...

You probably hardly pay any attention to it, as it is natural to us. You are doing it right now and you are very talented at it. You also do it when you talk on the phone. When you hang out with your ...

A government panel in South Korea is charged with coming up with Korean equivalents for foreign terms that keep slipping into the language. Among the challenges: Finding ways to say things like ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The English language is, indeed, a quirky one: it's notoriously difficult to learn, and often words have more than one meaning. Some of these ...

Move over, "antidisestablishmentarianism." The longest word in English will leave you speechless. If you don’t think this monstrous moniker should be considered a real English word, you’d find some ...