Ten Welsh words have been added to the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, it has been announced. The OED is ...

Actor Holly Robinson Peete turns 60 and actor Patrick Schwarzenegger turns 30, among the famous birthdays for Sept. 18.

Henry W Fowler, author of Modern English Usage (1926), and Wilson Follett, author of Modern American Usage (1966), both included “barbarisms” as headwords in their guides. Fowler defined them as ...

If someone calls your tastes 'bourgeois,' should you thank them or shake a fist? You might have to check first with Moliere, ...

You start seeing the spooky in everything—even in language that isn’t necessarily Halloween-specific. In honor of the season, ...

The Midpeninsula has no shortage of some seriously unique homes. We’ve compiled a list of some of these not-so-ordinary ...

Cawl (1880) is a traditional Welsh soup typically made with lamb or beef, and vegetables such as leeks, potatoes, swedes, and ...

Kazi Imdadul Huq’s novel Abdullah, written nearly a century ago, is regarded as one of the first modern novels by a Bengali ...

The German city of Paderborn and the French city of Le Mans could claim to have formed ... It has been symbolically defined as "the most distant place imaginable" by the Oxford English Dictionary, and ...

1789 – Alexander Hamilton negotiated and secured the first loan for the United States. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was repaid ...

The incident Saturday occurred nearly two weeks after a boat carrying migrants ripped apart in the English Channel as they ...

France's new Prime Minister Michel Barnier has completed the difficult task of forming a government and is expected to ...