Most people walk around believing they have a pretty good sense of how English works. We learn the alphabet, pick up some ...

Back in grade school, words like "onomatopoeia" and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" seemed insanely complicated and long. Surprisingly, neither of these is the ...

“I know the longest word in the whole English language,” Jimmy tells Jenny by the playground swings. “It’s antidisestablishmentarianism.” Jenny slurps up the last of her juice box, unimpressed. “Is ...

The Irony of a Monstrous Word At 36 letters long, it's one of the longest words in the dictionary.

We'll have to figure out what the word "word" really means... Before we decide from a long list of contenders, we'll have to figure out what the word "word" really means... Before we decide from a ...

There are few books in the world that most people have heard of. There are even fewer so recognizable that are 500,000 words long. That's right, we're talking about the dictionary. The Oxford English ...