The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is 45 letters: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. According to ...

Type in an English word, and you’ll see a map of how that word translates in different parts of Europe. James Trimble created the European Word Translator, which uses Google Translate to source ...

These regions encoded not just what words patients were planning to say, but also what syntactic role it played—subject or object—and how that role fit into the grammatical structure of the ...

Why I Don’t Translate Non-English Words in My Writing 5 minute read Questions about in-text translations and glossaries are really questions about implied audience, writes Rachel Heng Getty Images ...

A government panel in South Korea is charged with coming up with Korean equivalents for foreign terms that keep slipping into the language. Among the challenges: Finding ways to say things like ...

A Word, Please: Synonyms make English interesting. So do these other terms Pacific dogwood leaves turn from green to red as temperatures fall at night in Yosemite Valley.

Ultra-detailed brain map shows neurons that encode words’ meaning For the first time, scientists identify individual brain cells linked to the linguistic essence of a word.

IDEAS May I have a word: Turtles all the way down A brief history of inventing words just for the heck of it.

Antidisestablishmentarianism is regarded as the longest non-medical, non-coined, nontechnical word in the English language—and it keeps some robust company.

The Tagalog word “gigil” is among 42 new additions to the Oxford English Dictionary that are untranslatable or have no direct English equivalents.

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.