While much of our understanding of language production has been built on single-word tasks such as picture naming, this new study directly tests whether those insights extend to the far more ...

In September 2020, claims that the word hangover was derived from a cheap, rope-based form of accommodation prized by drunken sailors went viral on social media, often accompanied by a picture of ...

Oxford’s Word of the Year is based on usage evidence drawn from its continually updated corpus of more than 22 billion words, gathered from news sources across the English-speaking world.

A New York Times article from 2000 attributes the origin of the word “tattoo” to traditional Polynesian markings known as “tatu” or “tatau.” “Tatau,” according to the National Park ...

Author and broadcaster Kel Richards says the term "scapegoat" is one of the "many" expressions the Bible put into English. Mr Richards said the word was first coined in 1530 by a man named William ...