Each year, the internet gives birth to a new lexicon, one that's as fast-moving and unpredictable as the online trends that ...

According to behavioral analyst Dr. Lillian Glass, deception shows up subtly in a person's daily interactions, and ...

He was a Christian of no uncertain stamp. He managed the difficult feat of successfully integrating his scholarship and his ...

“The lexicon of a foreign language is like a map of a country you’ve never been to,” says psychologist Tim Lomas, a lecturer at the University of East London. While travelers tend to think that seeing ...

Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. The challenge last time was to come up with a name for the gesture of resting your hand over your mouth in ...

"Slop" is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2025, meaning more people than ever need to "touch grass," which, as it ...

The Oxford University Press, which publishes the dictionary, announced that its Word of the Year this year is “rage bait,” which it defines as a noun meaning: “Online content deliberately designed to ...

Many golf terms stretch back centuries, and contested origins are common. Here is a history of some of golf’s most fundamental words.

The pair’s departure is marked by a special message from a “super fan” paying tribute to their “warmth, compassion and sheer happiness”.

Greeks are known for their vivid expressions of emotions with various gestures taking center stage. Here's what they mean.