Books & the Arts / In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he ...

The English language is full of surprises, and some of its most fascinating ones come in the form of words so long they look impossible to pronounce. While most of us stick to simple, everyday vocab, ...

Taylor Swift formally trademarked the word "Swiftie" through TAS Rights Management LLC in 2017, securing full registration in ...

Dictionary.com has officially added the Taylor Swift–inspired word “Swifties” to its digital archive. Notably, Swift’s ...

Swifties, it's your era now. Fans of Taylor Swift are officially part of the English language, after the latest update from ...

As the Indiana legislature finished the 2026 legislative session Friday, many bills didn’t advance, including a ban on ...

English just installed a software update. This winter’s additions paint a clear picture: English speakers are looking outward for cultural influences, inward at trends shaping digital identity and ...

Code words deciphered in Staged Wrecks trial ...

Voice is what we use to communicate with one another. Voice is the sound we make as we navigate the unknown—our echolocation, mapping the world, attempting to place ourselves within it. Voice encodes ...

The Institute submitted a letter in response to the Department of Education's plan to exclude accounting from its definition ...

In chemistry, we are rightly precise with our words. The challenge before us is to future-proof the language of the central ...

New mothers often experience forgetfulness, dubbed "mom brain." But there's actually a lot more happening in new parents' brains, experts say.