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

The “semantic debate” about Minnesota’s End of Life Options Act is worth having. Semantics deals with the relationship between the definition of words and how different people interpret their meaning.

The film features a conversation between two individuals discussing the hobby of collecting words and their meanings. The dialogue emphasizes the importance of understanding word meanings to improve ...

The spread of modern technology has changed nearly everything in our lives—including what even the most common of words mean. Rather than invent a word for each novel thing or concept, our language is ...

Almost 150 million people around the world consume cannabis, according to the World Health Organization. With its rising popularity comes new vocabulary for many people. To help navigate, here are ...

I heard someone say once, “The dictionary would be a great book to read if it didn’t keep changing the subject so much.” I laughed! But ever since I started watching Alie Ward do her MOcabulary ...

Wordplay that involves changing one letter in a given word to produce a different legitimate word can be traced to Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece puzzle called the doublet. For example, given the initial ...

Of course, words only have the meanings we give them. Woke, for example, was originally the past tense of wake. Then some people gave it the meaning “aware of and actively attentive to important ...

Half of all Americans use slang words like “ghosted” and “woke” without knowing their actual meanings, according to a new study from Preply. Daniele Saccardi, a manager for the languages app and ...

When Jacqueline Bircher had questions about the power of words — how they can enlighten, enrage, torment and amuse — she went not just to the dictionary but to the place where dictionaries are made.