Sometimes you spot a smart, simple idea from a big business that makes you wonder why every small business doesn’t copy it. Case in point: The new “Thank You Crew” initiative at McDonald’s. You don’t ...

The rising impact of social media and artificial intelligence (AI) left a lasting impact on language in 2025 as terms related ...

Which terms best represent 2025? Every year, editors for publications ranging from the Oxford English Dictionary to the Ma ...

A look back at 2025 through Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang, from 6-7 and brainrot to aura farming, and what these phrases reveal about youth culture.

Editor’s note: Veteran entrepreneur and investor Donald Thompson is a regular contributor to WRAL TechWire. His column appears on Wednesdays. RALEIGH – In my 20 years of leadership, I have made about ...

Sample sentences have long been a standard feature of many online and offline dictionaries. Starting today, Google Translate will also feature sentences that put translated words into context. Unlike ...

Words on Words with Ian Hislop (R4) had a great selection of extracts chosen by your man and performed by Eleanor Bron and John Sessions. Sessions had a great time with Sam Weller from Pickwick Papers ...

In 2017 Kris De Meyer, a neuroscientist who directs the Climate Action Unit at University College London, ran the opening session of a conference on decision-making under uncertainty for an audience ...

Editor's note: The following excerpt from a book about swear words contains many, many swear words. Some of them are pretty ugly, but it's all in the name of linguistics. The most obvious possibility ...

A number of notable recent books, including Joseph Stiglitz’s The Price of Inequality and Timothy Noah’s The Great Divergence, lay out in disheartening detail the growing inequality of income and ...