While 'herd' is the most common term, a group of cows can also be called a flink, kine, or drove, depending on the number and ...

From 100 per cent to the ancient origins of the “parting shot”, these are linguistic quirks that keep readers up at night.

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“Yinz” is essentially Pittsburgh’s version of “y’all.” It’s used as a second-person plural pronoun, so someone living in ...

If you’re looking for the Connections answer for Friday, December 26, 2025, read on—I’ll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solutions to all four categories.

A team of researchers from Saarbrücken and Leipzig has examined around 1,700 languages to identify structures that might occur universally. Of 191 grammatical patterns – known as linguistic universals ...

I was taught to use “fewer” with countable nouns: “less coal, fewer sacks”. Perhaps the rule could be expressed in a more contemporary form as: “less protectionism and fewer tariffs”.

The word “schadenfreude” is a noun that is defined as pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune. The word “schadenfreude” is pronounced /SHAA-duhn-froy-duh/.

Google Docs has become the go-to tool for collaborative writing because it is simple, easy to access, and syncs reliably in ...

Overview Wordle #1648 begins with the letter G and works as both a noun and a verb.The word contains only one vowel and has no repeating letters.The Wordle answ ...

I kept this opinion to myself. Disliking chardonnay has a way of sounding performative, as though one is trying to set ...

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