AJ McLean doesn't seem to understand the hype around slang words like "rizz," and he clearly wants no part of it. The ...

In an election year, the Yiddish word 'schlub' provides a handy, if somewhat gendered, way to separate the competent from the ...

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Nicholas T Ansell/Press Association via AP Images Tuesday's Wordle answer is "FULLY." According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary it means, "in a full manner or degree," or "at least." Congratulations ...

A leading American communist claimed Republicans were using "vague allegations of 'Marxism'" to "divide and divert working ...

Speakers of English are adept at creating new terms by stringing together parts of other words. This is often accomplished by ...

Most of the debates on the usage of“Latinx” – pronounced“la-teen-ex” – have taken place in the U.S. But the word has begun to ...

Being a Forty-something myself, I’ve recently been reflecting on “A Pirate Looks at Forty.” The song is actually about a real ...

“Fall” is not a term that independently sprung up in American English, it was actually born in the UK. Merriam-Webster writes ...

In closing, he joins the battle over English usage, as our full review of “The Sense of Style” describes. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage. Merriam-Webster; 989 pages; $29.95 What ...

Teenagers today are using the verb "google" less often when referring to searching for information online. Instead, according ...

Term GOOGLE that was inducted in the dictionary as a verb for searching has been the millennials’ phrase for ‘looking up’ ...