Image: Julija K.Sometimes when you want to know th...  ...ry isn't the place to look. After all, dictionary definitions don't give the blunt, honest meanings of words li...

UniverseProjects told us about his Russian wife trying to ask for a tape measure. He knew what she meant. Learning a different language is hard, and it takes years to learn enough words to express everything you need to...

English, like many languages, changes over time. Not only do we add words, and drop others from everyday usage, but we also see existing words come to mean something different over time. If you watch old movies, you migh...

The Food and Drug Administration knows from experience that if terms are not strictly defined, manufacturers will push the boundaries of regulations as far as they can. That's why commonsense words that everyone sort of...

Although they might look like it, none of the word...  ...rty, and to prove it we're giving you the correct definitions . But use them at your own risk.Bed Load: Solid pa...

The folks who bring you the Merriam-Webster dictionary select their top words of the year not by how trendy or new they are, but by which words are the most looked up in their online dictionary. This year, nine of the to...

Librarian Ross Horsley has a blog in which he en...  ...o learn. However, letting your children see these definitions may destroy their childhood. Link -via b3ta