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

“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 ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shane O'Neill of The Washington Post about the word "aesthetic" and its evolution from art criticism and design theory to online speak and the White House.

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 ...

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 ...