Whether it's bacteria, a city name, or a day of the week, love can be found in unexpected places—including our vocabulary.

Karen Attiah wrote a short opinion piece about how the nationwide assault on diversity, equity and inclusion led by conservatives ...

While it might be a bit of an uncomfortable experience, there’s no underestimating the joy and pure eccentricity that the ...

Perhaps the most powerful shaper of English was William Tyndale. Tyndale's translation of the Bible into English is rich in ...

One of the fun things about English (though frustrating for those learning the language) is the way two words can be spelled ...

Flake out: This phrase comes from when a crew would ‘flake out’ an anchor chain (lay it out flat) on the deck to check the ...

Global View: The power that a rising and expanding America would inevitably acquire will be seen in Beijing and Moscow—and not only there—as a threat. Photo: Ju Peng/Alexander Kazakov ...

For the uninitiated, the aim of Wordle is to work out a daily five-letter word within six guesses ... There’s even an Old School RuneScape version.

Monsters are everywhere. Vampires (like the one in the recently released Nosferatu) and zombies are the most popular of the undead community, and they share cultural space with werewolves, ...

The word snake itself comes from Old English snaca, whose origins lie in the Proto-Indo-European root *sneg-, meaning “to crawl” or “a creeping thing”.

The devastated parents of a two-year-old boy,who died after a "preventable ... We are absolutely heart broken and devastated beyond words by this shocking and unexpected loss of the love of ...

KYREN WILSON has taken a cheeky dig at "old man" Shaun Murphy following their dramatic Masters final. Murphy beat Wilson 10-7 at Ally Pally on Sunday night to secure the Paul Hunter Trophy.