Even if you’re not a full-blown grammar nerd, you’ll find the origins of these words that changed meaning over time completely fascinating The English language is alive—and like any living thing, it ...

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

From left: MirageC/Moment/Getty Images; Narongsak Noinash/EyeEm/Getty Images; Jordan Lye/Moment/Getty Images; Justin Dodd/Mental Floss (background) Etymologies can be hard to establish beyond a ...

The English language grows a little more every year. It becomes richer, warmer, and more diverse as people across the world ...

The addition of skibidi to the Cambridge Dictionary has ignited a fierce debate about the influence of digital slang on the English language. As a term born from online memes, its recognition among ...

To a recent roundup of whale shark news, I appended a sort of human interest one-liner about how “shark” is the only word in the English language that derives from a Yucatec (Mayan) Indian word – “Xoc ...

For many architects writing is an integral part of the design process, one that clarifies or pushes ideas into places sketches can't always reach. But for many, the origins of the words we use to ...