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

Can you name the most commonly used words in the English language? In this quiz, you'll hav...  ...quiz, you'll have twelve minutes to name the 100 words most used. I only guessed 68 before time ran out,...  ...n into trouble by having a space in front of some words

Social networking on the internet has given us ple...  ...orking on the internet has given us plenty of new words and terms (such as "social networking"), and the...  ...ice for Word of the Year. Most “un-” prefixed words are adjectives (unacceptable, unpleasant), and th...  ...entury!). Unfriend has real le...

Must Pop Words is a straightforward but addictive clear-the-boar...  ...ith a word game. As letters drop, you type in any words they can form, which will clear those letters. Do...

Being born a Jill, I always have had an involuntary relationship with the name “Jack.” For a few months in high school, I even dated a Jack. I was thrilled when we broke up because I no longer had to hear the nursery...

The following is an article from Uncle Jo...  ..., the English language includes about one million words , yet native speakers regularly use only about 5,0...  ...l languages, English is constantly changing - new words are added, old words are phased out, and new word combinati...

...comes "Appropriately Named," a blog that points out all of those names for people and businesses that are just too good to be true. My favorite? Dr. William Friend... proctologist. And to your left is Larry Sprinkl...

Lexicographer Grant Barrett assembled a list of...  ...8 for The New York Times. The biggest part of the words came from the US presidential race, and a big chu...

Almost every aspect of war spawns new words , and, over time, many of them slip into everyday...  ...h each passing conflict, the list of pacified war words gets longer and longer.Undermine: If your colleag...  ...for the scraps used to bulletproof vehicles.Some words have...

This got me laughing. Here is Sameer Mishra wh...  ...2008 National Spelling Bee. These kids get tough words