English is a tricky language with some words so similar in sound or spelling that they're often used interchangeably. Sometimes even though we know they are different words, the autocorrect in our ...

Grammar Guy Curtis Honeycutt writes about several pairs of words that sound similar but have differing meanings. News Sports Entertainment Lifestyle Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.

Anyone who happens to know their way around a lot of languages can barely help noticing this eerie similarity. But when it comes to European languages closely related to English, like the Romance ...

Our word glitch, which started being used in English by American astronauts, is probably from Yiddish glitsh "slippery place." It's a Germanic word, related to glide . 14.

Adding a word to the dictionary has long been a sign of mainstream legitimacy. And in the latest batch added to Dictionary.com, the online dictionary has included multiple African American ...

The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable. By Gina Cherelus Need a word to emphasize ...