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Two food-related renamings: one that mostly happened, another that mostly did not

Misophonia is a condition that 20% of you have: an extreme reaction to certain sounds.

Decoding and translating 400-year-old texts to understand the lost Timucua language

Dictionary Corner resident Susie Dent has been studying words to make us feel happy.

Behind every Great Man of Lexicography was usually a team of women making his dictionary.

Sterling Martin was studying worms, when suddenly he found himself making a dictionary.

Chinese is one of the oldest still-spoken languages in the world.

A lot - a LOT! - of work goes into inventing languages for fictional worlds.

The Yiddish word for 鈥榖lack鈥� is a slur. How to translate Black Lives Matter without it?

In its fairly short existence, the word 'bisexual' has had a pretty bumpy ride.