Word of the Day: Enhance your vocabulary with our Word of the Day series. In this series, we introduce a new word every day ...

We often hear fascinating stories about how things originated: the universe, the wheel, even pizza. But when it comes to the words we toss around every single day without a second thought, it’s wild ...

Word of the Day: Enhance your vocabulary with our Word of the Day series. In this series, we introduce a new word every day ...

For more than 150 years ago, the assumption that language is a singular event has hampered progress in explaining its evolution. Another obstacle was the failure to recognize that certain social ...

THERE has been a remarkable surge of global interest in Japan recently, a trend most visibly evidenced by the dramatic influx ...

On his morning constitutional today the Vice President of Research and I encountered a longtime FOT (Friend of Twoey’s). This guy owns a pair of Pekinese so speaks a bit of dog language. Twoey begins ...

I’m not an etymology buff. Though I love many aspects of language, word histories don’t interest me much. The plots are too formulaic: Scrappy young word starts out on a trek that winds through ...