The easiest pangram of 2025 was flapping, found by 99 percent of players. The hardest pangram was philhellenic, which means loving Greek culture and was found by 24 percent of players. The longest pangrams had 13 letters, including dillydallying, attainability and climactically.

For us linguists, the flurry of "word of the year" announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as anticipated as mince pies. The words of the year aren't just a fun peek into new slang and language changes,

Terms like ‘affordability,’ ‘socialism’ and ‘famine’ take on new, politically convenient meanings.

Some words, when used in specific situations, have deeper meanings than you realize: Whether they’re said over a PA or in a one-on-one conversation, these seemingly innocuous terms are actually codes to alert those in the know that something is up while ...

There are more than 300 Turkish words that are used in the Greek language. After all the Greeks were under Ottoman occupation for 400 years.

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 number—and how does it compare with the number you know?

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 came into my office and asked me to personalize one of my ...

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Even if you’re not a full-blown grammar nerd, you’ll find the origins of these words that changed meaning over time completely fascinating The English language is alive—and like any living thing, it grows, shifts and adapts. Just as new words get ...

Test yourself on these 12 sophisticated words that most people pretend to understand but secretly don't—from the corporate buzzword that actually means "boring" to the German term for that guilty pleasure you feel when your annoying coworker gets called out.