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Words are ever evolving – but not without controversy. From creative applications of an apostrophe to the overuse of literally, what makes you rage?

More than 1,000 years ago in Spain’s La Rioja region, monks made notes in the margins of Latin texts. These are believed to be the Spanish language’s first steps onto the page.

Can you spell history? The 92nd Scripps National Spelling Bee had an epic ending with eight co-champions.

‘We the Cree people are laughing about it because of what it means in our language,’ says Grand Chief Jonathan Solomon

A University of Bristol academic has succeeded where countless cryptographers, linguistics scholars and computer programs have failed—by cracking the code of the 'world's most mysterious text', the Voynich manuscript.

Scott Chacon is CEO of the online language learning company Chatterbug.

Risking the wrath of purists, the board game’s official arbiters have approved use of the two-letter initialism along with thousands of other new words

I knew I’d never sound like a native. But shouldn’t I be much better than this?

From Korea to Germany to Nigeria, every culture has its own versions of ‘once upon a time’ – and most are more interesting than the English

I recently had the honor of meeting an award-winning literary sort, a man wry and restrained and overall quite utterly mature, who casually referred to having gone through a phase in his 20s when he’d been “pilly”—that is, when he’d taken a lot of recreational drugs. The word had a wonderfully childish sound to it, the tacked-on y creating a new adjective in the style of happy, angry, and silly. My writer-acquaintance, I recognized, was not alone in bending language this way.

Usually, a minor language will adopt words from a dominant language, but NZ English bucks this trend. It has been borrowing a growing number of Māori words, not always to add meaning but to mark identity.

As our ancestors began eating softer agricultural foods, the shape of the human jaw and the sounds we make may have changed as well

A new look at “the Russian Blues” demonstrates the power of words to shape perception

Random House’s copy chief confronts three persistent, unnecessary rules about good writing.

Instead of multiplying the number of gender-neutral pronouns we should decrease their number and stick to a single one creating a gender-free language

Newborn babies are born with the innate skills needed to pick out words from language, a new study published in Developmental Science reveals. Before infants can learn words, they must identify those words in continuous speech. Yet, the speech signal lacks obvious boundary markers, which poses a potential problem for language acquisition.

A soon-to-be published study found court reporters in Philadelphia regularly made errors when transcribing sentences spoken in a dialect linguists term African-American English.

Mort Felix liked to say that his name, when read as two Latin words, meant “happy death.” When he was sick with the flu, he used to jokingly remind his wife, Susan, that he wanted Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” played at his deathbed. But when his life’s end arrived at the age of 77, he lay in his study in his Berkeley, California, home, his body besieged by cancer and his consciousness cradled in morphine, uninterested in music and refusing food as he dwindled away over three weeks in 2012. “Enough,” he told Susan. “Thank you, and I love you, and enough.” When she came downstairs the next morning, she found Felix dead.

Each year, dictionaries like Merriam-Webster add a few new words to their lexical listings.