They may sound innocuous to you, but please don’t throw around these seemingly innocent words and phrases that have horrible ...

W hat comes to mind when you think of Irish words? Maybe begorra, an alteration of “by God,” or shillelagh, a blackthorn ...

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, “nonce” is a slang term used in the U.K. to describe someone who is accused of a sex ...

When we confess, we bang our chests on top of where our hearts are. Yet, the heart in classical Hebrew thought is not the seat of our feelings or love (‘With all my heart’) but the seat of our ...

So while vedkommende means something like ‘arriving at’ if you translate it literally, this isn’t what it actually means. Why ...

The theme of knowledge and the inevitability of human curiosity are central to “Orb: On the Movements of the Earth.” Or at ...

Some words are so tricky that even spell check can’t save you. Here are 10 words most people can’t spell correctly—and how to ...

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have made significant progress in generating human-like text, translating ...

The aim is to guess the hidden five-letter word for that day, and you do that by entering in five-letter words as guesses. With each guess you enter, the tiles of some letters may light up yellow or ...

Following the example of federal agencies, some campuses are coming up with lists of keywords to purge their webpages and ...

Anyone can submit a request for a word to be translated into Gaeilge and a language committee goes to work to draft the new term ...