When that happens, wildly creative writers gift us with new words. Literary tradition is littered with fake languages that ...

A planet word search is a simple way to help kids build space vocabulary while keeping them engaged with a quiet, screen-free activity. Whether you’re learning about the solar system at home or in the ...

“The Golden Bowl” is about two couples. One is made up of an Italian prince who marries an American woman named Maggie, the ...

Donald Trump decided to give an English lesson to the president of the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, which gave him a chance to once again bizarrely obsess over one particular word. During a ...

The writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane has spent much of his life climbing up mountains and fishing on rivers, and his ...

English players are split on whether to remain in Pakistan to play cricket after India launched air strikes over the Kashmiri border. With fears the conflict could escalate into war between the ...

When English mariners in the 1600s adopted the Spanish word alcatraz, they believed it to be influenced by the Latin albus, meaning whiteness — thus the word for the white seabird, the albatross ...

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