The English language is full of surprises, and some of its most fascinating ones come in the form of words so long they look impossible to pronounce. While most of us stick to simple, everyday vocab, ...

Welcome back to another ‘advanced English words’ quiz! If you’ve checked out our 32 Advanced English Words That Only Smart People Know quiz, then you’ll know what's expected of you here. Some of these ...

English is a quirky, often confusing language that's been shaped and influenced by many others. As such, it has a massive variety of words—but here are some we think rise above the crowd and deserve ...

The English language is notoriously difficult to learn for those who don’t grow up speaking it at home. Those of us for whom it is a first language aren’t very good about learning other ones. However, ...

We recently wrote about the words women don't know that men do and vice versa. But the meanings of some words confuse people of both genders. The Center for Reading Research analyzed the first 480,000 ...

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 ...

Of course, it's impossible to provide an exact number of words in English, since new words are being added to the dictionary, and falling out of use, pretty much constantly. But what's an approximate ...