"67," pronounced "six seven," spread from a rap song, through sports and social media, to classrooms and homes across the U.S ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

A swear word is like a linguistic punch in the nose. Virtually every language and culture has them—and virtually every language and culture formally disapproves of them. But that doesn’t stop them ...

Re “Loyola High apologizes for incident” (May 7): Loyola High apologizes over an incident after being accused of racism. Seriously! Racism is serious to all who may have been a target in their life, ...

On Wednesday, Cambridge Dictionary announced that its 2023 word of the year is "hallucinate," owing to the popularity of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, which sometimes produce erroneous ...

If what we search for is any indication of what we value, then things aren't looking great for artificial intelligence. "Authentic" was selected as the 2023 word of the year by the Merriam-Webster ...