What do you call a bread roll? If you’re in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire then it’s a “cob”, people from Durham, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland would say it’s a “bun”, whereas in ...

If you're like me, you're always looking for a new way to spice up the action lines of your screenplay.

In short, the modern degendering of English is continuing a centuries-long trajectory—gradually, in terms of its grammar, but ...

For years, Donald Trump’s rhetoric has relied on insult, ridicule, threat and contempt. But the scale of violence in his ...

Dahntahn: The Pittsburgh way to say downtown, referring to the area around Point State Park (aka The Point), where the ...

“We’ve won,” President Trump announced at a rally on March 11, as the widening war in Iran started to rock oil markets and ...

Dear Miss Manners: My (newly married) last name looks an awful lot like a certain four-letter word. It’s rarely used in ...

English is a trap. It’s a language built on theft, borrowing words from German, French, and Latin, shaking them up in a bag, and spilling them out with spelling rules that make absolutely no sense.

If your starter word contains a rarely used letter, rethink your strategy. Here are the most commonly used letters in the alphabet. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture ...

Sometimes, language just can’t capture the complicated feelings we have. We all know what it’s like to feel something we can’t quite name until we stumble on just the right word. Those rare words help ...