The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed.

Which word has the most definitions in the English language? Here's a hint: the word is only three letters long, can be a ...

Krrisha Agrawal, a fifth grader from Woodland Hill Montessori School in North Greenbush, will compete in next week's Scripps ...

The polar regions are cold, remote and off-putting, but there are thousands of polar words in English – and not just words ...

Despite the pronunciation being deemed 'non-standard' by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Countdown's Susie Dens believes it ...

Some of the words are cutesy (kerfuffle, jubilee). Others are onomatopoeic, with a similar sound to the idea they’re describing (meow, clink, squeak). Some are bizarre sounding (for example, syzygy: ...

He keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means.

In this beautiful country, we like to see our friends NEXT TOMORROW and not just the day after tomorrow ( a jaded expression ...

“Alamak” and “nasi lemak” have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) for the first time. According to the dictionary, they are among a number of “untranslatable words” from ...

Just when you thought you’d seen it all, let me hit you with a fact. There’s a word in the English language that has 189,819 ...

Sushil Kutty Congress party’s Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor’s roar is unlikely to pierce Congress eardrums. No, but ...

Faizan Zaki won this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee after correctly spelling the word "éclaircissement," meaning "enlightening explanation of something, typically someone's conduct, that has ...