Pedantry is a desirable characteristic in a lawyer, to my mind. Lawyers do, after all, spend much time arguing profitably about semantics. Journalists should be pedants too. Paul Rogerson I wrestled ...

How would we recognize a message from an alien civilization if we cannot understand its language? By combining information theory, Zipf’s Law, and studies of human and dolphin communication, ...

In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he reveals what the dictionary can still tell us about language in modern life A page taken from the ...

SAN MATEO, Calif., March 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- English just installed a software update. In the 2026 Winter Word Drop, Dictionary.com added more than 1,500 new entries, with science and technology ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has directed the release of government files in an apparent attempt to answer a question many have asked: Are aliens real? In a post on social media platform Truth ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — Former U.S. President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens “have made contact with us,” after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a ...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of some of the Venezuelan men it sent to an El Salvador prison last year by invoking the Alien Enemies Act. U.S.

A groundbreaking new monolingual Irish dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge, the body responsible for the promotion of the Irish language throughout the island of Ireland, was launched this week by ...