Slang terms like "rage bait" and "6 7" reflect youth culture, spreading rapidly via social media platforms like TikTok.

Language has a remarkable way of capturing not just meaning but sensation. Some words seem to sound like what they describe, ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone's everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research ...

Swisher elected a new mayor in November, ending a revolving door of partial term mayors and mayoral vacancies that began in ...

How directors and writers striving for a PG-13 rating have learned to ration the use of a four-letter obscenity.

Tue, Dec 23, 2025 King Charles, like many across the world, is no doubt beginning to look forward to Christmas. With ...

Built-in screen readers improve the accessibility of texts and can help students achieve success in building higher-level ...

At a time when toppled statues are being remounted, an art critic and an illustrator examine, edit and unpack three ...

Write the name of a place (house, spot in nature, work, restaurant, etc.) at the top of your paper, and then do a stream-of-consciousness writing about that place and see what bubbles up. Pick a ...

Zack Polanski has used a four-letter word to slam a cabinet minister after Steve Reed accused him of being a “con artist”.

Chinese pronouns are largely split between female and male – prompting LGBTQ activists to invent their own gender-neutral pronoun. That movement just took a big step forward.