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Jeffrey R. Holland, a high-ranking official in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was next in line to become ...

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Laurence Watkins has held the Guinness World Record for the longest name for several years, and has now opened up about the ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

Language, which is a collection of lots of words, is a medium for expressing human emotions and intentions, and some words carry a sense of hope and progress within them. Among many of the words one ...

Most people walk around believing they have a pretty good sense of how English works. We learn the alphabet, pick up some spelling rules, and memorize how to pronounce tricky words, feeling confident ...

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After yet another year of high-profile news stories and internet trends, Merriam-Webster has chosen one word to sum up 2025: “slop.” The dictionary publisher defined it as “digital content of low ...

On the evening before Thanksgiving, the president of the United States took to his social media platform to claim in a lengthy screed that immigration was destroying the country. In one spurious ...