We spend much of our lives in the in-between — those fleeting moments when one thing has ended but the next has not yet begun ...

There are words that linger on the tongue long after they’re spoken — ironically, “evanescent” is not one of them. Whether ...

The Oxford University Press named a two-word phrase its word of the year for 2025. Hint: It's not six seven.

Before a thought becomes fully formed — before a movement finds its shape or an idea gains its edges —it exists in a hazy, ...

Merriam-Webster raised the hackles of stodgy grammarians last week when it affirmed the lexical veracity of "irregardless." The word's definition, when reading it, would seem to be: without without ...

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 ...

Oxford named "rage bait" the word of the year for 2025. Oxford University Press has named "rage bait’’ as its word of the ...

Oxford University says the term reflects how anger-driven online content now dominates digital conversations.

Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” — defined as “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative or offensive” — as its 2025 Word of the ...