Justice Antonin Scalia is known for his eyebrow-raising words, including jiggery-pokery, mummeries, ukase and argle-bargle. Skip to main content. WBUR. 90.0 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station.

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 ...

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 ...

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.