Every three months, The Oxford English Dictionary adds new words to its language arsenal, indicating their increasingly common usage among Americans, such as “jeggings,” “bromance,” and “muggle.” And ...

A new book exploring the origins of common food terms — from bialy to lima bean to bibimbap — is a fascinating history of how we eat and cook. By Kim Severson Used judiciously, the snappy tidbits of ...

Words are full of pulchritude, and while using such a term to describe words as beautiful might seem a bit supercilious and sesquipedalian in this day and age, the truth is that the dictionary holds ...