Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is a popular long word that humorously refers to the fear of long words. Famous more for ...

Imagine Max, a well-trained border collie, manages to ignore a squirrel in the park when his owner tells him to sit. His ...

T hree years ago, I served on an external review committee for the English department at Montclair State University, in New ...

Six-year-old Antoni, born in the UK to Polish parents, speaks only a few English words in class and often looks confused when ...

Abstract: The evaluation of personality traits allows the study of human behavior in different environments, but it is not a trivial task. In this sense, the Five-Factor Model (FFM) allows, in a ...

A new study explores how human-like language shapes the way we talk about artificial intelligence. Think, know, understand, remember. These are the kinds of mental verbs people use every day to ...

As with any generation, Gen Alpha has its own lexicon of what’s cool and what’s not, and they’re letting everyone older than ...

The Oxford English Dictionary traces possible origins to Old High German “halâ,” a cry used to hail a ferryman, and to “halloo,” a hunting call urging hounds forward ...

Dr. Anastasia Riehl is leading the effort to craft the first new Canadian English dictionary in decades, an update that ...

When you start using these words intentionally, motivation in life starts feeling sustainable — something you return to even ...

In a previous language column, I described some ways in which grammatical and spelling conventions that are typically ...