Emojis are truly a language all their own, and Dictionary.com is recognizing this by adding emojis to their site—becoming the first major reference to do so, as Time reports. As we all know, emojis ...

Human linguistics began with pictograms. At some point, a particularly enterprising Cro-Magnon decided to dip his finger into the ashes of a smoldering fire — ouch! — and wipe it against the cave wall ...

Fancy snowboarding in a kimono? Want to get over a broken heart with a dirty weekend? Or perhaps you just want to tell someone your day has been, frankly, a big pile of Number Two. If you’re under a ...

I haven't entirely decided if I'm exaggerating, but I do know one thing: We're in the midst of a revolution, and that revolution is all about communicating with each other without having to say a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Find out which new words were added to the dictionary this year. — -- "Twerk" is now officially a word. The Merriam-Webster dictionary just announced more than 1700 new words have been added to ...

Language is a wonderful, masterfully evolving beast and we’re all just puppets bending to its many whims. Dictionaries aren’t safe from the power of a linguistic whim either, and so maybe that’s why ...