“Every word was coined by a resourceful individual or borrowed as a result of language contact in a certain place at a certain time,” writes Anatoly Liberman in his new book, “Word Origins and How We ...

Learn bow to use prefixes and suffixes to break big words down into understandable word parts. Learn bow to use word parts, like prefixes and suffixes, to break big words down into understandable word ...

Billboard has curated a list with some of the popular Puerto Rican words used by reggaetón and trap artists in their lyrics. By Jessica Roiz Assistant Editor, Latin We listen to it full blast, we sing ...

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As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example, the word 'window' has two beats ('win' – 'dow') but the word 'door' had just one ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added several "untranslatable" words, including 'gigil,' a Tagalog term describing intense cuteness. These new words, from diverse global regions, address ...