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, ...

Women scholars open up about the challenges and possibilities of studying and teaching reggaetón in higher education.

Cliché – a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought.      --- Oxford Dictionary A cliché is ...

So it was surprising to see two acute accents on one word on Monday, when we said that Sir Simon Russell Beale had been ...

In the 19th century, French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote of “correspondences ... “white noise” denotes a sound equally ...

This week we’ll look at a couple of major works by French composer Hector Berlioz, including the Symphonie Fantastique ...

Foxglove applied to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) in 2018 to register the trademark VALLEY OF MOTHER OF ...

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