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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A dictionary can be used to look up the meaning of a word. You can also use a dictionary to check the spelling of a word. Dictionaries may also give other information about words, such as word type ...

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 ...