In most people, language is generated on the left side of the brain — the half associated with logic, motor functions and math. But when we let loose with a particularly satisfying swear word, the ...

English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, and while some of it is aurally beautiful, it has its fair share of cringe-worthy words, too. I dare you to read through this list of ...

Uproarious and ingenious, Burrows’s Dictionary Stories is more than 150 shorts composed entirely from example sentences taken from 12 different dictionaries. Burrows crafts tense postapocalyptic ...

Of course, it's impossible to provide an exact number of words in English, since new words are being added to the dictionary, and falling out of use, pretty much constantly. But what's an approximate ...

What’s in a swear? The world’s filthiest words typically refer to something vulgar or taboo, for one. But there’s something else swears across the world’s languages have in common. They’re all missing ...

Not a lot of things last over a thousand years; even fewer last over 10,000. Yet a British research team has put together a list of what they called “ultraconserved words,” or words that have remained ...

Tens of thousands of people have voted on the grossest word in the English language — with “pus” taking the top spot. The icky word — defined as “a thick yellowish or greenish liquid produced in ...

According to the Oxford Dictionary (and anyone who has ever studied English as a second language), spelling is hard. And misspellings are not only common, but also awkward in professional contexts.