The English word love covers many meanings, but in Greek we find concepts often known as 'the Four Loves'. This is the story ...

The word 'church' in common language has many meanings depending on the context. This is the story ...

A Fort Smith teacher is speaking out after being placed on administrative leave over a controversial test question that ...

How does one track a language evolving so fast? Efforts have involved JRR Tolkein, K-dramas, and a red post box that still ...

The word "gleeful" is an adjective that radiates joy, excitement, and pure happiness. When someone is "gleeful," it's like they've caught a case of the giggles or are bubbling over with delight. It's ...

Our regular columnist Molly Quell is thinking of love and whether the Dutch really know what that means. A recent post on The ...

Buzz on social media is that two AIs devised their own language. Shocking? End of times? Or might be something more ...

The word "banal" originates from the French word banal, meaning "pertaining to a ban" or something commonplace. It referred to something that was available to all or overused. The term entered English ...

The citation index, first seeded as an embryo by the information scientist Eugene Garfield in the 1950s, was delivered in the 1960s as a fully formed child, the Science Citation Index. Its twin ...

This pithy word may only be three letters long, but it's deceptively complex. According to one lexicographer, it has 645 distinct definitions.

The other study, published in Science Advances, found that whale song has parallels to another hallmark of human language: efficiency. "In general, in language, we try to convey as much information as ...