Studying Word Bursts Online March 6, 2003 / 4:01 PM EST / AP Computer scientist Jon Kleinberg is taking a virtual stroll down the information superhighway, surfing cyberspace for verbal megatrends.

If words can be added, frankly on a whim, then why the hell does “what makes a word a word” matter at all? If I can say it, and you know what I mean, it’s a word. Advertisement ...

The tried-and-true option for testing a word’s popularity is to look them up in dictionaries and, for constructors like Joel Fagliano, who makes and edits puzzles for The Times, in newspaper and ...

A new website called This Word Does Not Exist taps into the world's most 'dangerous' algorithm to generate words and definitions that seem real, but aren't.

For two decades, the "Word of the Year" has become a real-time reflection of what people are curious about and searching for on Merriam-Webster. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays.

How Brands Ruin Slang. Season 3 Episode 1 | 8m 1s Video has Closed Captions | CC. What makes a word slang, and why does it sound so weird when companies use it? From the Brands Saying Bae in the ...