There's a rather regal sound to this word ... The post The 30 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language appeared first on Reader's Digest.

Nowhere in Old English grammar is there actually a precise ancestor ... ‘the’ at all There are lots of European languages that have a separate word marking definiteness like ‘il’ and ...

There are many words in the English language - but which one is the longest? You might recall the lengthy 34-letter-long song titled ...

We considered dusting off the dictionary and going from A1 to Zyzzyva, however, there are an estimated 171,146 words currently in use in the English language, according to the Oxford English ...

English can be a very silly language, with many words looking nothing like the way they should be said. There are also a lot of words that so many people say slightly wrong, that often people are ...

English is the official language in this polyglot ... as did two other writers. But there are the fundamentalists befuddled by what they consider "street words" having made it into the dictionary.

There are lots of words in the English language which begin with 'a' so it's not just the first letter that is important. Words are organised alphabetically according to the following letters in a ...

Poet John Donne lamented the shortfall in Elegy upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred: “Language ... English is too cumbersome to embrace our everywhen below. Hereness and thereness are words ...