Will Smith once rapped, "Parents just don't understand." He couldn't have been talking about today's digital slang (the song is from 1988), but the meaning behind the famous line still rings true with ...

Even if you’re not a full-blown grammar nerd, you’ll find the origins of these words that changed meaning over time completely fascinating The English language is alive—and like any living thing, it ...

“When I use a word,” one of 19th century British author and mathematician Lewis Carroll’s characters once said, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” Though he was a ...

Depending on how you use it, literally might mean one thing—or the complete opposite. Here's how to use the word without (literally?) losing your cool. Somewhere along the way, things changed. People ...