Not many people realize just how many words English has borrowed from other languages, or just how many terms enter your ...

QUIZ: There are hundreds of tricky words within the English language but do you know the meanings of all of them? These eight wacky words may stump you. A new online quiz asks people whether or not ...

In honor of Oktoberfest, the annual German beer festival, we’ve got some fresh words on tap that came to English from German. Pour yourself a cold one and take the quiz. Prost! (That’s “cheers” in ...

Wanna test your acronym acumen? See if you can work out the words behind seven common acronyms that you, and maybe your kids, ...

As anyone trying to learn it will tell you, the English language is tricky to master. Not only do some words sound the same or have different meanings, but words come and go all the time too. An old ...

With the worldwide explosion of the internet and smartphones constantly at our fingertips, we are more connected than ever – but technology can’t break through the nuances of language, culture and ...

Lewis Carroll didn’t just invent worlds, he also invented words. And the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland gave old words new meaning. The most famous example may be portmanteau, a name for a ...

Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level. Subject: FIRST NAMES THAT ARE WORDS Each ...

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 ...

It was first recorded in the late 1700s, in the sense of an odd or eccentric person. What is the origin of the word quiz? It is not known for sure where it comes from. It was first recorded in the ...

In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or phrase has changed throughout the history of the newspaper. Christie’s International Ltd., based in London, is about to start operations in New York ...