Elon Musk's recent X post defining a woman as someone with a womb has ignited a fierce debate online. While supporters hail it as a clear biological distinction, critics point to medical conditions ...

Have you ever felt “disgustikafied,” been branded a “rampallion” or had a “frabjous” day? Or are you totally, utterly and “completriciously” confused by these questions? If so, it’s time to brush up ...

Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

mikroman6/Moment/Getty Images (Johnson); amtitus/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images (thought bubble) It took roughly eight years for Samuel Johnson and his staff of six helpers to complete the ...

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So what is the origin of the word engineering? Languages are often imprecise in effectively communicating ideas and the origins of our modern words can be very complex indeed. To some, the derivation ...

CHENNAI: Even Tamil teachers in the state might be taken aback if we told them that the origins of the English word ‘free’ could be traced to Tamil. While etymology links it to the Sanskrit root ‘pri’ ...

Can you believe it’s already time to wrap up another year? Before we dive headfirst into holiday craziness, let’s talk about something fun and life-changing: your Word of the Year for 2026. If you’ve ...

The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’ “We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we ...