Wordle, the daily word guessing game, is taking Twitter, the world, and my relationship by storm. If you haven’t heard of it—how?—the rules are simple. Every day there’s a new five-letter word (a ...

Wordle is a worldwide phenomenon, and though it’s no longer quite the obsession it was in 2022, it’s still a daily delight of many people’s mornings. Wordle‘s genius is that it is simple to understand ...

Your brain responds to words in ways that affect your experience of the world. Taking care to use words that don’t cause harm to others can help protect them from trauma. We’ve all heard the saying, ...

Every so often, a generation comes up with a word that is so specific and unique that it merits a spot in the lexicon.

Before babies learn to use the language spoken in their home, they babble and coo, playing with sound. That's baby talk, and baby talk sounds similar the world over. Babbling and cooing are all part ...

Do you think you have a good vocabulary? We can guarantee you've probably never heard some of these funny words before. Are you one of those people who still giggle when someone says “duty”? Wait ...

English speakers already have over a million words at our disposal – so why are we adding 1,000 new ones a year to the lexicon? And how? As dictionary publishers never tire of reminding us, our ...