3. "I really like 'mid.' I like to review things, and there are so many things that are 'aggressively mediocre,' but before 'mid,' I didn't have a word or phrase that really captured the feeling. Even ...
When I turned 13, I entered a part of the life cycle cherished by all Jewish kids and dreaded by their parents. This was the year of bar and bat mitzvahs—my own, but also those of friends, relatives, ...
An ogham stone in Cornwall, England BabelStone via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Researchers say they are compiling the first-ever dictionary of ancient Celtic languages in Britain and Ireland.
President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly pictured at the launch An Foclóir Nua Gaeilge (The New Irish Dictionary). (Pic: Leon Farrell) A groundbreaking new monolingual Irish dictionary by Foras na ...
The Kremlin has a new "Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation." We look into some of the revised definitions of common words. Russia is doing this. They've published a ...
George Orwell's novel "1984" features a government that changes the language so that people can only say accepted things. It turns out that something like this is happening in reality. STEVE INSKEEP, ...