Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture ...

You know those word of the day apps to expand your vocabulary? Well, our next guest has an app highlighting words with a twist - like wrath-mod (ph), as in super angry, or lencten-adl (ph), as in ...

IN the epic of Beowulf, our first great English epic, with almost countless references to the winter season, the sweet, antithetical season of summer is not once mentioned. This fact is significant, ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link As the years pass, language evolves. In fact, many of the words we use today— like "bedazzled" and "addiction" — were invented by William ...