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

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

Friends and loved ones could carefully choose bouquets, sending complex messages that might otherwise remain unspoken.

Arabic is spoken by more than 400 million people. Can you recognise these Arabic words that made their way into English?

Effective communication lies at the heart of human connection. It helps us collaborate with each other, solve problems and ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Across the United States, a quiet linguistic shift is underway, reshaping how people speak in ways that are easy to miss in ...

Recently, my wife was texting with a friend who lives in Singapore. The news from the other side of the world turned out to be that kids there had discovered “six seven.” On Halloween, our friend ...

The map is not the territory, but the hallucination is not the map. –adapted from Alfred Korzybski Artificial intelligence (AI) is rewriting the conditions under which our cognition forms meaning.

The TOEFL Full Form is the Test of English as a Foreign Language. It is a globally recognized English proficiency test designed to measure the ability of non-native English speakers to use and ...

When the Church approaches contemplative prayer, she is led to give multiple and different definitions in her attempt to explain what it is. The multiple definitions are needed since no one definition ...