New year, new list of obnoxious slang terms proliferating society — from mind-numbing rap song catch phrases to good words ...

Redact” once meant to edit. But around the middle of the 20th century, it began to refer to one particular kind of editing.

Every summer in Australia, millions of people head to the beach, and every year, thousands are rescued by lifeguards or Surf ...

Some people think the flags denote a risky area – others that only good swimmers should venture between them ...

Language often gives us words that quietly describe the fabric of everyday life, and quotidian is one such word. Though it ...

Some words are on the money. When the word "farm" entered English during the 1200s, for instance, it had more to do with ...

Chances are you’ve heard some of these terms over the past year—whether you understood what they meant or not.

After the Oct. 7 attacks, campus groups pressured trustees to adopt policies enforcing ‘institutional neutrality’. But it is ...

Large numbers of visitors to Australia misinterpret the signs, with deadly consequences. The warnings need to be clearer.

The backstory: The law began as Senate Bill 53, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, to ...