“You will know them by their fruits.” This ancient wisdom is from the author of the Gospel of Matthew. Sixteen centuries later, in his book “Will and Doom,” the Rev. Gershom Bulkeley, paraphrased ...

Yahoo is celebrating its 20th anniversary on Monday, and plenty has changed in the world — and on the World Wide Web — since its launch in 1995. To commemorate two decades on the Internet, Yahoo News ...

Words have the power to create a special space for the reader to feel as though a hand has reached out and grabbed theirs as if to say: I wrote this thing for you. And in that moment, you feel ...

How linguists picked 2024’s extremely online words of the year. We're sorry, but something went wrong while fetching your podcast feeds. Please contact us at plus ...

The English language is a constantly evolving one, and that keeps things interesting.Words are fascinating in that they can elicit a strong response from some people. I know a few people who can’t ...

In news that has truly confirmed I’m not ‘with it’, Dictionary.com has announced its 2025 Word of the Year is 67, and the internet is riddled with confusion. In case you’re out of the loop or not a ...

Although language has its rules, like grammar, spelling, etc., it is still not something constant or immune to changes. Dictionaries are being re-written and re-published every year. New words are ...

The year is 2005. You’re sitting at your desk, waiting for your Compaq desktop to connect to the Internet so you can type out an e-mail to your friends with links to your Weblog and MySpace profile, ...

Tumblr, YouTube, and Twitter have been leading the slang game recently. "Snatched" is officially the new "fleek," "sis" is the new "bro," and adding "boots" to the end of any adjective is totally a ...

The epidemic of gay culture illiteracy has gone too far! In today’s culture we have to constantly deal with cis and straight people trying and failing to correctly use gay slang, but now, it seems ...

Traditionally, literally means something that is strictly true. Google's dictionary, bloggers noticed, says you can also use it for emphasis. Like, "I would literally give my right arm to own a pickup ...