Language preserves history in every word. Many expressions we use today have roots stretching back centuries, surviving ...

Korean children’s clothing brand Topten Kids issued a public apology Thursday after selling a top with a sexually suggestive ...

Some of the words are cutesy (kerfuffle, jubilee). Others are onomatopoeic, with a similar sound to the idea they’re describing (meow, clink, squeak). Some are bizarre sounding (for example, syzygy: ...

In Japan, there’s a term for this phenomenon: tsundoku.

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What ideas are reframed most amusingly, in different cultures? Take a tour with Adam Jacot de Boinod, in this week’s Capital Letters.

In creating the world of Nia DaCosta’s “ Hedda ,” hair and makeup artist Sharon A. Martin created a new phrase to explain the ...

Pam Amendola, an English teacher at Dawson County High School in Dawsonville, Ga., decided to put an AI twist into her ...

TOKYO -- Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi caused a stir when she remarked that she would "throw away the phrase work ...

I don’t look it up,” he said. “I have two daughters and a son, but my two daughters, they use slang, and I just use context clues. If I’m not sure, I’ll ask, but context clues are key.” Still, he ...