The free online dictionary and thesaurus Memidex has released what it calls the internet’s first combined index of external word definitions, audio, and etymology. Memidex now contains more than 12.5 ...

Sound familiar? You have a solid vocabulary, you understand verb tenses, but when you start speaking, something goes wrong.

Read about the longest English word without a vowel, Rhythm. Learn its meaning, origin, pronunciation, and examples of other ...

When referring to a place where you keep your socks (as opposed to the word that refers to someone who draws, say, with a crayon), most Americans pronounce it as a single syllable that ends in the r ...

Having tried to address a functional definition of a bayou last week, I’ll pivot here to a related subject I was asked about, which yields a comparable muddiness. I talked with Dr. Nathalie Dajko, a ...