A recently discovered Politico banned word list sent to staffers in 2022 revealed that the outlet has been policing what language its writers may publish especially concerning transgender issues. The ...

The marking of a new year not only inspires us to look ahead but to reflect on the past and consider what can be done to make things better including our cringe worthy use of the English language.

Few would disagree that 2023 was, in the world of technology at least, dominated by artificial intelligence. The dictionaries have taken note in their “word of the year” lists, and notably all the ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A list of forbidden words recently published by Stanford University is drawing ire, even among faculty members at the ...

Word lists are the basis of so much research in so many fields. Researchers have now developed an algorithm that can be applied to different languages and can expand word lists significantly better ...