The connections between words aren’t always as straightforward as the link between run and runner; often, figuring them out requires the subtle unraveling of linguistic evolution, the kind of detective work that makes etymology so fascinating.

There’s a reason nobody’s referring to the missing ‘Titanic’ submersible as a submarine.

A pronoun slip can be embarrassing, especially if you pride yourself on being generally good at using the language people have asked you to use. Why do pronoun slips happen, and why do we seem to mess up pronouns more than names or other gendered words?

The world's biggest boyband have been feeling the love with millions celebrating their 10th birthday.

A new iPhone update will spell the end for everyone’s least favorite autocorrect fail.

Linguistic illusions—a phenomenon in which your judgment or understanding of a sentence or phrase conflicts with its actual meaning or structure—reveal how we process the world, and remind us that things aren’t always as they seem.

The years-in-the-making Oxford Dictionary of African American English will offer proper attribution to words and phrases that originated in Black culture.

Learning how to pronounce ‘biopic’ is one thing. Understanding why it’s such a commonly mispronounced word is another.

And how does a range fit into all this?

Why be sweltering and sunburnt when you can be swoly and birsled instead?

Social media has been buzzing about "main character energy" for years, but what does it actually mean?

Let your freak flag fly, man.