Language is full of quirky and unexpected terms, many describing everyday things we never realized had names. How often have ...

Need a little help understanding the Gen Alpha kids? You're not alone, according to a new ranking of the most Googled slang ...

Need a little help understanding the Gen Alpha kids? You're not alone, according to a new ranking of the most Googled slang ...

The most popular internet slang words have been revealed. How many do you know, and do you know what they mean? Take our quiz ...

This French word can help you express positive feelings toward someone or something, and differentiate different types of owls.

While those people who aren’t massive fans of the Irish language will always complain that Irish takes too much from English for modern Irish-language words, the development of both languages ...

We’re all guilty of using a thesaurus to find complicated words to use to sound smarter. Unfortunately this often backfires because we either don’t fully understand what the word means ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The English-language translators of an Italian collection of short stories and a French book of poetry have won awards from the American Literary Translators Association. Jamie ...

A new study suggests that our feline companions can even learn to associate the words we use for particular objects or images, and they pick this up faster than our own babies do. Cats can even learn ...

An old video of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ “last words” is going viral on social media after his arrest and allegations of sexual abuse. The resurfaced clip shows Combs sitting alongside Usher ...

Other slang comes from specific groups: black people have innovated and spread hundreds of English words over the years, from “cool” to “tea” (gossip). Journalists and screenwriters ...