Quarantine is a word that has become all too familiar in recent years, but its origins are centuries old. Stemming from the ...

Pumpkins are a harvest symbol and part of our nostalgia for a simpler time. But while the word "pumpkin" has been around for ...

Linguist Gareth Roberts joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the etymologies of English words. How did the first languages first form? Was there once a single common language ...

A circus performer, an unsociable student or someone who is ahead of the curve? Over the decades, a “geek” has been all three. By Sarah Diamond A headline on a 2021 New York Times article made a bold ...

Scholar Jenni Nuttall speaks to ABC News Live. Articulating a woman's journey may not be an easy task, but in her new book, “Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words,” scholar Jenni ...

As you might have gathered from our blog's title, the Code Switch team is kind of obsessed with the ways we speak to each other. Every Monday in "Word Watch," we'll dig into language that tells us ...

A south Florida politician said that the word picnic shouldn’t be used to describe an annual gathering of city employees. Fort Lauderdale City Commissioner Robert McKinzie said the word has racist ...

Dictionary.com has officially revealed its newest Word of the Year. The online dictionary announced Wednesday that "67" is ...