Awni Etaywe is affiliated with Charles Darwin University, Australia - a Lecturer in Linguistics and a researcher specialising in forensic linguistics, focusing on countering violent extremism, ...

Americans are turning to Google in record numbers to figure out how to say the trickiest words in English, and the results reveal a lot about culture, curiosity and maybe a touch of culinary confusion ...

If you find yourself stumbling to say sentences like “pass the Worcestershire sauce” or “she found her niche” you’re not alone. To determine which words Americans struggle the most to pronounce, the ...

For some users, AI is a helpful assistant; for others, a companion. But for a few unlucky people, chatbots powered by the technology have become a gaslighting, delusional menace. In the case of Allan ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A recent study by Unscramblerer has uncovered the most popular slang in 2025. The slang words have been “heavily influenced by TikTok, Instagram, gaming, streaming, Gen Z, and ...

Once upon a time, the English language was full of stories with “blossoms,” “rivers,” and “moss.” But these words are disappearing from our vocabularies — and along with them, our connection to the ...

A key discovery about the impact of stroke on a person's ability to read reveals why a deficit occurs – a finding that presents a possible opportunity for new therapeutic strategies to help people ...

After its release in late 2022, ChatGPT reached 100 million users in just two months, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history. Since then the artificial intelligence (AI) tool ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” which was ranked as the TV series with the most words-per-minute in 2023 by WordFinderX with 176.2 words per minute, is not the chattiest show on TV anymore. A new ...

Do certain words leave you tongue-tied, turning to the internet to figure out the correct pronunciation? If so, you are not alone. A recent study by language-learning platform Mondly by Pearson ...