Watching the Winter Olympics can be like trying to follow a TV show in another language. Its strange and strangely specific sports jargon may already have you wondering how on Earth you’ll be able to ...

The history of words like 'blog' Like scientist, any number of useful words and phrases began as little more than quips, wisecracks, and throwaway lines. When Andy Warhol reportedly observed over a ...

Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. I did have a lovely Caribbean vacation, thank you, while you all had two extra weeks to come up with a good ...

Keyes is the author of seventeen books, including The Post-Truth Era, cited by Oxford Dictionaries as a primary source for their 2016 "Word of the Year." His latest book, The Hidden History of Coined ...