With analysts and vendors using "technical debt" and other phrases to mean whatever they want them to mean, someone has to defend the language.

The word arrived in English in the early 1500s and by the turn of the 1600s, a century of deliberately ironic usage had twisted the word's meaning to the point where, even now, you only really see ...

We know that words change all the time and over time, a process language experts describe as “semantic shift,” semantics being the field of language concerned with meaning. Even if we may not ...

To think of language as a list of words with set meanings is like thinking of the position of the clouds right now as somehow fundamental rather than as a passing moment. Attempts to ban all ...

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Surprising words that changed meaning over time The English language is alive—and like any living thing, it grows, shifts and adapts.

The Cambridge Dictionary has added more than 6,000 new words. Some words are fully internet gibberish — skibidi is defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as “a word that can have different meanings ...

When the English clergyman Thomas Fuller used the word unfriended in a letter dating from 1659, we can be pretty sure he wasn’t talking about his Facebook page. Instead, Fuller used the word to ...

English has a massive variety of words—but here are some we think rise above the crowd and deserve the designation "beautiful." ...