Back in grade school, words like "onomatopoeia" and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" seemed insanely complicated and long. Surprisingly, neither of these is the ...

Commonly Confused Words: Have you ever used the word access where you should have used excess? Or Have you got confused about which to use-affect or effect? Well, don’t worry as this is not unusual.

“Lit,” “yeet,” “vibes” – these are the words I hear walking across campus on any given day, and I’m curious: What meaning do these words convey anymore, and more importantly, where did they come from?

(WAFF) - 'Chaff' is an interesting word in that it has several radically different meanings, one of which we are well familiar with, being in a military area. As we've learned in the past, chaff can ...

You’re not delulu, the English language just got a little more skibidi after the Cambridge Dictionary added thousands of words over the last 12 months. These include words popularized by social media, ...

Commonly used to describe that extra something added to almost anything, the slang term has a centuries-long history. By Hayley Phelan When you fluff up pillows on your well-worn sofa, or turn your ...

Jonathan Culpeper receives funding from the AHRC and the BA. Today it would seem odd to describe a flower with the word “bastard” – why apply a term of personal abuse to a flower? But in Shakespeare’s ...