Agenda-driven opinion mills, designed more to sway public opinion than serve the public, might be harder to spot if AI is used to make them sound more original and rational. So the race is on to stay ...

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.

Google Docs has become the go-to tool for collaborative writing because it is simple, easy to access, and syncs reliably in ...

In November, three of America’s largest kosher certifying organizations came together to release new guidance regarding the ...

What exactly drives the creation and spread of slang? There is some social science to it.

Adjectives are words which describe nouns, and they have to agree with what they describe. This means that the form found in a dictionary (ending in -o or -e) changes its ending depending on whether ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Gary Cosby (Dec. 2) argues that Jesus was “far more than woke,” because “woke” is a “propaganda term used by the extreme right wing” to “provoke an angry response from their constituents.” So, “by ...

The original definition of the word “bias,” when it entered the English language in the 16th century, was a diagonal line, and specifically one that cut across the warp or weft of a woven fabric. It ...

The most incorrect plurals among Italians? Cherries, suitcases, rain and oranges probably, but even compound nouns give us a lot ...