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We often hear fascinating stories about how things originated: the universe, the wheel, even pizza. But when it comes to the ...

English is a quirky, often confusing language that's been shaped and influenced by many others. As such, it has a massive variety of words—but here are some we think rise above the crowd and deserve ...

Fortunately, other languages have nailed it with words that capture specific feelings or scenarios perfectly. Here's a list ...

Before I enlist the words that English has borrowed from Persian, I would like to share with you some musings on borrowings and the words English has borrowed, which Robert Claiborne has penned in his ...

Of course, it's impossible to provide an exact number of words in English, since new words are being added to the dictionary, and falling out of use, pretty much constantly. But what's an approximate ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The English language is, indeed, a quirky one: it's notoriously difficult to learn, and often words have more than one meaning. Some of these ...

In the past, linguists and researchers didn’t have the tools to gauge how many words the average person knows. But, thanks to Twitter, Facebook, and a nation of online quiz-takers, we might finally ...

How many words are there in English? It depends on how you count them — do run and running count as separate words? What about run [a footrace] and run [for office]? A good conservative estimate is ...

How many of you have ever heard of the Japanese word "wasei eigo?" A direct translation into English would be “Japanese-made English,” but put more simply the word refers to English words that, after ...

That sort of painful, sort of bittersweet, sort of wistful feeling you get looking out the window or driving at night or listening to a far-off train whistle? There's a word for that in Japanese. By ...