Feast on the bounty of these seasonal word origins. Artichoke Artichoke ultimately comes from the Arabic al-harshuf, ...

Hilaria Baldwin found herself in another Spanish-speaking pickle after a video showed the self-proclaimed Spaniard forgetting how to pronounce a commonly used English word despite being from ...

Words are full of pulchritude, and while using such a term to describe words as beautiful might seem a bit supercilious and sesquipedalian in this day and age, the truth is that the dictionary holds ...

Hungry for a new challenge? There's a new word game in town and it's perfect for food lovers. Hot on the heels of the Wordle phenomenon, "Phoodle," a word game with only food-related words, has ...

Here's a little food for thought: You, yes, you, the foodie par excellence who embraced gnocchi long before the masses, might not be quite as in-the-know as you think. Your taste buds are on point, ...

I’m not an etymology buff. Though I love many aspects of language, word histories don’t interest me much. The plots are too formulaic: Scrappy young word starts out on a trek that winds through ...

Words that capture an entire culinary experience or mood — such as “utepils,” in Norwegian — are common in other languages. English has a few such words, too. By Ruth Dsouza Prabhu In pre-Covid times, ...