You might feel silly saying it, but croissant is not pronounced "KROY-sant," "cross-ANT," or "KRUH-sant" it's pronounced ...

Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them—reflecting what they value and experience daily.

But our results suggest the Inuit snow vocabulary is indeed exceptional. Out of 616 languages, the language with the top score for “snow” was Eastern Canadian Inuktitut. The other two Inuit languages ...

The first time I heard the word C-word used outside of its more familiar context as a gross and misogynistic swear word, a ...

Taken from the Philippines' Tagalog language, gigil is a "feeling so intense that it gives us the irresistible urge to ...

Yoh: A popular South African interjection, which the OED traced to 1855. It comes from two South African languages: Afrikaans ...

Language learners often assume that using rare, complex vocabulary will make their speech sound more fluent. Research ...

There’s a reason spelling bees are only common in English-speaking countries: English spelling is absurd. Even the most ...

If you’ve ever experienced the indescribable feeling of being so overwhelmed by cuteness that it almost seems unbearable, ...

The Oxford English Dictionary adds new words four times a year. This month, it's "gigil," an overwhelming need to squeeze ...

Of the many words in Philippine English that made it to the Oxford English Dictionary, nothing has probably received as much ...

The BBC is giving the chance for spoken word artists to be involved in our ‘Words First’ scheme for 2025, which is a talent ...