Some Old English words haven't changed much over the centuries. From "cat" to "friend," here are seven modern words that are ...

English is a complicated language thanks to its origins in the 5th and 6th centuries. The English language has been influenced and infused with words and dialects including German, French, Latin, and ...

I love how words can perfectly encapsulate how someone is feeling or accurately paint a picture for someone who wasn't there. Words are magic. They give us stories, songs, and poetry. And just like ...

Words like "bat," "desert," "wind," and "clip" all have multiple meanings but are confusingly spelled the same way.

It’s often said that English has more words than any other language. That’s a difficult statistic to corroborate, not least because not every language has words in the way we would recognize them (and ...

Detail from Tacuinum Sanitatis, a 14th-century handbook of medieval health. The naming process, the act of naming the items of the world, is as old as the first words spoken by our ancestors. We can ...

There are five main ways of building new words. One is to add things called “suffixes”, which are letters we add to the ends of words to change their meaning slightly. By adding a “-y” to “tree” and ...