Move over, "antidisestablishmentarianism." The longest word in English will leave you speechless. If you don’t think this monstrous moniker should be considered a real English word, you’d find some ...

The Twitter account for the Merriam-Webster dictionary put out a call asking people to share words in other languages that don't fully translate to English. People came through. The dictionary tweeted ...

I'm sure you can think of words that come from Hebrew or Yiddish — religious words like rabbi and torah, food words like bagel and latke, cultural words like chutzpah and verklempt. But there's a very ...

The longest word in the English language is a massive 189,819-letter chemical name for the protein titin. While it’s technically the correct name based on scientific rules, most dictionaries don’t ...

Kirah — With Persian origins, this moniker symbolizes the sun. Donna — This moniker sounds like "dawn" and evokes the sunrise ...

Other languages have words that mean false, tacky, or trying too hard, but only the English slang term “cheesy” can fully express something so fake that it stinks like Camembert: “He came up to me at ...

Why do we use the word Easter to describe the spring’s eggiest holiday? There’s more than one theory, but the most interesting intertwines with the tale of a monk known as the Venerable Bede. A ...