The rapid growth (and partial retreat) of “they” and “them” has gotten a lot of attention in recent years, but English is hardly the only language that has been experimenting with a gender-neutral ...

Every year, a group of “Word Warriors” publish a list of words that people don’t use much anymore, hoping to revive them. Your browser does not support the ...

I was hoping to keep this to weekly updates, but two weekends came and went with me struggling to figure out why WinUIpad was crashing on app exit in certain conditions. So another few weeks with the ...

“Vibe coding,” a form of software development that involves turning natural language into computer code by using artificial intelligence (AI), has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for ...

When choosing a large language model (LLM) for use in a particular task, one of the first things that people often look at is the model's parameter count. A vendor might offer several different ...

For Martha Barnette, griping about grammatical pet peeves is one of the least interesting ways to talk about language. Instead, the co-host of the radio show “A Way with Words” says she’d rather think ...

Wharton School professor Jonah Berger has spent years studying how simple word choices we make at work, in business, and in personal life, can result in failure. His research shows that there are easy ...

Word already displays the number of words in a document in its status bar for all versions. This number appears at the bottom, second to the right after the number of pages in the document. If you ...

In the aftermath of the recent U.S. military strikes on Iran, one truth stands out above all: language is not just a means of communication—it is the lens through which we interpret, react to, and ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article features language that may be hurtful to readers. On an April episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the host used a slur within the first 45 seconds of the show. “The word ...