Discover 'discombobulated,' a 19th-century American gem meaning confused or bewildered. This expressive word, a playful twist ...

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 ...

Do you know where the word 'budget' comes from? Let’s explore the language origins and background of this important money term.

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 ...

Timothy W. Jones receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Victorian Government. He is currently also the president of the Australian Queer Archives. Recently, a number of people ...

India, Jan. 30 -- The language provides us with words that perfectly express noble human traits, and the word "Anathema" serves as one among these terms. The statement describes something or someone ...

Listen to one end of a phone conversation, and you’ll probably hear a rattle of ah’s, um’s and mm-hm’s. Our speech is brimming with these fillers, yet linguistic researchers haven’t paid much ...