An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The English language is, indeed, a quirky one: it's notoriously difficult to learn, and often words have more than one meaning. Some of these ...

World Dictionary Day takes place on October 16, the birthday of the American lexicographer Noah Webster, whose enormous, two-volume An American Dictionary of the English Language—published in 1828, ...

Which word has the most definitions in the English language? Here's a hint: the word is only three letters long, can be a noun or a verb, and has more than 600 senses (or meanings), according to the ...

One of many interesting facts about words we learned in "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary" by Simon Winchester (2003) is that the most complex word in the language ...