Remember when your parents would warn you, "Don’t listen to that, it’ll rot your brain," referring to songs, words, or readings they thought were literally harmful to your brain because they offered ...

Not all phrases will make their way into the new year unscathed. Lake Superior State University releases its list of Banished Words every year on New Year's Eve, and Americans should consider saying ...

Word lists are the basis of so much research in so many fields. Researchers have now developed an algorithm that can be applied to different languages and can expand word lists significantly better ...

If you’re ready to make 2025 a game changer by retiring stale words that are just so cringe, Lake Superior State University can get behind that 100%. And IYKYK. And ...

As the final pre-competition meeting of the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s word selection panel stretches into its seventh hour, the pronouncers no longer seem to care. Before panelists can debate ...