Other words added to the dictionary include “grawlix”, a phrase coined by American cartoonist Mort Walker to describe the typographical symbols used to cover up obscenities, such as ...

Members of the Fairmont and West Virginia faith community came bearing gifts to a local minister on Saturday. Led by the Rt. Rev. Matthew Cowden, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia, ...

It's basically the same thing as Comic Book Dictionary, where I occasionally define terms having to do with comic books. Today, we look at how "The Unsustainability of Comic Book Power" affects comic ...

The period "has lost its original purpose because, rather than needing a symbol to indicate the end of a sentence, you can simply hit send on your message," Gretchen McCulloch, linguist and author of ...

A volunteer teaches Gondi language to tribal children in Maharashtra, facing challenges due to lack of recognition.

The U.S. government has an official plan for a zombie apocalypse Think The Walking Dead is straight-up fiction? Well, it ...

A popular method for choosing a password is to open a dictionary or book and choose a random word. However, a single word is quite easy for a threat actor to guess, so it is best to choose a few words ...

Political sociology encompasses both sociology and politics, raising several questions. Political sociology is considered one of the most recent social ...

Holding a phone creates the illusion of connection and vitality. Yet what it offers is a filtered, abstract version of life, ...

The United Arab Emirates has officially approved a symbol to represent the Dirham currency unit. The Central Bank UAE has unveiled the physical form and the digital form of the new symbol. Previously, ...

Gigil, a Philippine word added to the Oxford English Dictionary, decribes the feeling we get when we see someone or something cute Ever found yourself speechless in the presence of overwhelming ...

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no learning and no translation—making emojis akin to the earlist forms of writing.