Staphylococcus is a type of bacteria that can cause conditions like skin infections, pneumonia and food poisoning. But that ...

Black and straight users are strip-mining Black queer speech for clout, comedy, and cultural currency — without honoring its history or the people who shaped it, argues Quincy Hartwigsen.

Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) can be difficult to diagnose, despite the condition being more prevalent than autism spectrum disorder, representing roughly 7.5% of 5-year-olds in ...

Bunurong elders, linguists and community members are working to revive a language that has not been spoken fluently for more than a century. Using 19th-century records, they are reconstructing ...

From '6,7' to 'vibe–coding', new slang words and phrases seem to pop up on an almost daily basis. But it's time to wind the clock back, as new data shows several outdated words are making a surprising ...

If you think of something to say and say it, that could never be AI slop, right? In theory, all organically grown utterances and snippets of text are safe from that label. But our shared linguistic ...

Those curse words your mother once upon a time told you not to use, or you’ll have to wash your mouth out with soap, are not even considered that bad anymore, according to Gen Z. According to research ...

No matter whether your Word is stuck with German, Spanish, French, or any other language, you must identify the language first. Only then will you be able to change it to something that you know.

“Vibe coding,” a form of software development that involves turning natural language into computer code by using artificial intelligence (AI), has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for ...

Dictionary.com's latest Word of the Year doesn't contain any letters, but has two numbers. The website named "67," pronounced "six-seven," as its 2025 Word of the Year on Tuesday, Oct. 28. The term ...

The Department of Energy has told employees to avoid using certain words, including "climate change," "green" and "sustainable," according to an internal email sent to staff and obtained by NPR. The ...

Once upon a time, the English language was full of stories with “blossoms,” “rivers,” and “moss.” But these words are disappearing from our vocabularies — and along with them, our connection to the ...