“Gifted” used to be an adjective, basically used as a term for smarty-pants kids. Or, to broaden it, to describe anybody with unusually strong abilities that they were born with. Like, say, not just a ...

Go to this link from the New York Times and start guessing words. That's a topic we've covered a bunch here. According to the ...

The word comes from the trilateral Arabic root letters ha-lam-waw, which produces the verb hala, meaning “to be sweet”, and ...

There is a four-letter word, beginning with an “F,” that is considered profane, but linguistically is one of the most versatile words in English — verb, noun, adjective, adverb and exclamation. I ...

Italian is a very rich language, capable of expertly mixing classical roots, regionalisms and foreign borrowings. Yet, in everyday life, ...

From commas and apostrophes to verb tenses and clauses, this 30-question UK English-inspired quiz puts your everyday language ...

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