“God Bless America" were the first and few English-language words uttered by the Spanish-language global superstar Bad Bunny, who then proceeded to list countries in the Americas, including the United ...

Wordle is a game about words, but numbers can help you beat it. We've delved into the data to find the most useful patterns.

Lists with the most frequent n-grams are provided separately by language and n. Available languages are Chinese (simplified), English, English Fiction, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, and ...

2-syllable words may seem basic, but learning them is a stepping stone to reading fluency. Two syllable words are a sweet spot, easy to sound out and fun to say. In this article, we’ll dive into an ...

Commentary: I still can't say adieu or get off a certain starter word train. Yes, that's a hint. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever ...

You may not find the words defollow, noob and defriend in the dictionary. But they and others like them — springing from far-flung corners of the English-speaking world — will push the mother tongue ...

Since 1976, Lake Superior State University (LSSU) in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan has worked diligently to “uphold, protect, and support excellence in language” by, simply put, banishing words that were ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As voice assistants like Google Assistant and Alexa increasingly make ...

Scientists are taking on a fun—and sometimes hilarious—challenge to explain their complex research in simple terms. Credit: iStock.com/selimaksan Even scientists ...

Believe it or not, the capital A hasn’t always looked the way it does now. Ancient Egyptians wrote the letter upside down, creating a symbol that resembled a steer with horns. Learn the surprising ...

Unfortunately, a lot of the word lists that are available online are not in structured machine readable format (eg, some are pdfs, others are in html). This is a collection of those lists converted ...