All languages borrow words from neighboring languages, and if a language has great geographical spread, as English has, it ...

The 1944 thriller 'Gaslight' gave rise to a useful new word that describes coercive, toxic relationships in personal life and ...

As Old English evolved into Middle and then modern English, the word becameaskenand thenask. But the ax pronunciation stuck ...

Conversations about idioms "on its last legs" and "knee-slapper" explained in a casual and informative manner.

A freelance translator says AI makes him more efficient at his job and it won't replace him.

Portsmouth, NH – Juried awards have been announced for NH Day at the New Hampshire Film Festival. The first entire day of the ...

"When comfortably middle-class people die of drug overdoses, it is described as ‘tragic’, they are ‘troubled’ and we are ...

Thomas Tuchel has been confirmed as the next manager of the England national football team, to take over from the hapless and ...

The old place is gone, so I cling to the new with the zeal ... By the time I finished high school and returned here for ...

Navika Kotia, who played Sridevi`s daughter in `English Vinglish`, shines in `School Friends` Season 2. She talks about her ...

But history is bursting with entertaining synonyms for scarecrow—here are 11 of our favorites, from blencher to moggy. In the ...

This fall's Honors College Retro Readings will look back at Machiavelli's The Prince, literature of the African diaspora and its use in Black radicalism, and a seminar in ...