The 18th and 19th centuries’ embrace of linguistic delicacy and extreme avoidance of taboo bestowed great power on those words that broached taboo topics directly, freely revealing what middle-class ...

Editor's note: The following excerpt from a book about swear words contains many, many swear words. Some of them are pretty ugly, but it's all in the name of linguistics. The most obvious possibility ...

Only English Majors Will Know These 26 Words from the Thesaurus The thesaurus is a handy tool. If you’re searching for a word that conveys an exact meaning, or trying to avoid a commonly overused word ...

The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed. If you, too, have been left puzzled by words not in the dictionary—even ones ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Not all phrases will make their way into the new year unscathed. Lake Superior State University releases its list of ...

Practicing inclusive language and design helps to get and keep customers, boost employee engagement, can help avoid embarrassing PR when the wrong words are used, and more. True story. My assistant ...

For the first time, speech has been decoupled from consequence. We now live alongside AI systems that converse knowledgeably and persuasively—deploying claims about the world, explanations, advice, ...