Learning another language can improve critical thinking, brain development, cultural sensitivity, and career development.

The first word on our list that can’t be fully translated because it carries emotion behind it we don’t tend to pack into ...

Standard rates of diversification predict there should be many unrelated Indigenous languages on the mainland. But this is not the case.

Let’s look at another list of words: 2010 — austerity; 2011 — pragmatic; 2012 — (for the first time two words tied) socialism and capitalism; 2013 — science; and 2014 — culture. These ...

As a writer, I often stew about just the right word selection. My goal is to share my thoughts as clearly as possible, with all of the subtleties and nuances that are in my mind at the time.

Words skip across borders duty-free, importing ideas without a customs stamp. All English speakers think daily in contraband, even those who would rather not. “Zeitgeist” didn’t start out ...

We've chosen words that have an elegant, unique, or fun sound—and we've got some that just look really cool, too! And, of course, we all know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder ...

For decades, Chunjie has been widely translated as "Spring Festival" in English, a term now adopted by UNESCO in its ...

Slowly but surely, linguistic communities are benefiting from initiatives to promote local languages. A French–Ewe dictionary ...

From "ouch" to "aïe", human expressions of pain are strikingly similar worldwide, revealing something fundamental about how humans develop language. We're all ... one of these sounds compared to a ...

Every year there are words in the English language that are ... banishedwords/year/ One can also nominate a word or phrase for the 2026 Banished Words List.