Kalopsia, derived from Greek roots, describes the illusion of seeing things as more beautiful or ideal than they truly are.

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A rumor that has circulated online since November 2024 claims that a man from New Zealand, Nigel Richards, won a Spanish-language Scrabble championship without even speaking the language. Richards ...

A tense office discussion reveals the difference between "stride" and "stroll," while exploring the slang term "delulu." ...

It doesn’t open up the tapestry of human experience — it reads like it was written by a shut-in with Wi-Fi and a thesaurus.

National Poet Laureate Arthur Sze will host a free public reading, “Words Bridging Worlds: On Poetry and Translation,” at ...

A new study draws on a rigorous analysis of the Corpus of Historical Japanese to trace the semantic evolution of the verb ...

Minnesota has been a magnet for Somali immigrants for decades and now has America’s largest population of people of Somali ...

Here are 40 Christmas music classics for your playlist, from Mariah Carey to Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Joni ...

Merci, Danke, and Thank You—different in linguistic origin, yet all express gratitude. Now that we are in the holiday season, you may want to ...

The Booker Prize-winner on surviving a knife attack, returning to fiction and the challenge of defending freedom of ...