Athens and Nicosia are starting 2026 by turning down the volume on New Year’s celebrations. The capitals of Greece and Cyprus ...

Siren enters English through Latin sīrēn, from the Greek Seirēn. In its earliest form, it names the mythic beings themselves. The etymology does not point to beauty or danger so much as compulsion. A ...

For most people, the name Jesus feels settled, familiar, and deeply tied to memory. And over time, repeated use makes a name ...

Language has a remarkable way of capturing complex human attitudes and emotions in a single word. Misanthrope is one such ...

As the year comes to a close, Natalie Haynes joins Armando to discuss and dissect the words of 2025. Looking at official lists, and conjuring up some of their own, they set about breaking down the ...

From the election of Zohran Mamdani to the intrigue surrounding the jewel heist at the Louvre, keeping up with this year's news also left some Americans struggling with pronunciations. That's put both ...

The new list by Google shows the most mispronounced words in India. These words are not difficult, but are different from how they are commonly spoken. Here’s the list of most searched words and how ...

What can you say on the radio these days? For some listeners, instances of swear words and racialised language do not belong on Radio 4. Andrea Catherwood sits down with "king of the bleep" Roger ...

Two new studies published in the journals Neuron and Nature reveal how the human brain transforms a continuous stream of sound into distinct words. The findings identify a specific neural mechanism ...

In 2016, I wrote an article entitled These are the 7 Types of Love, which helped spawn several more articles on this topic. At the beginning of that article, I did say that the seven types of love ...

Growing up in Midtown, Corinne Knight’s family would host 50 to 60 people for holiday gatherings. “We would always have a ton of people at our house and in our neighborhood … it was just chaos,” she ...