In 1972, comedian George Carlin delivered one of the most iconic bits in stand-up history: “Seven Dirty Words You Can’t Say on Television.” It was a profanity-laced masterclass in satire ...

Researchers told KPBS’s Amita Sharma their work is now at risk if it contains language deemed problematic by the White House, including the word "women." UC San Diego scientists say they’re ...

You can redact text in a Word document on Windows 11/10 using the options listed below. Before using any of these options, make a copy of your Word document, just in case. The options are ...

Now, a group of researchers has established a novel method for estimating LLM usage across a large set of scientific writing by measuring which "excess words" started showing up much more ...

It’s often said that English has more words than any other language. That’s a difficult statistic to corroborate, not least because not every language has words in the way we would recognize ...

Have you encountered a Word file corruption issue with a notice: “Word experienced an error trying to open the file”? Microsoft Word will offer three solutions to ...

The study of word origins (that is, etymology) is every bit the serious academic discipline you might expect it to be — except when it's not. As it turns out, people have a propensity to make ...

slang for “style, charm or attractiveness,” or “the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner” — has been named as Oxford’s 2023 Word of the Year, beating out contenders like ...

We’ve all experienced that moment mid-sentence when we just can’t find the word we want to use, even though we’re certain we know it. Why does this universal problem among speakers happen?

EXCLUSIVE: Ed Solomon, film and television writer, has teamed up with the Black List to host Word by Word. The show will broadcast live on Zoom starting Thursday, June 29. “During a strike years ...

A Forbes investigation into TikTok and ByteDance revealed that a ByteDance tool, run by staff in China, is tracking mentions of what it considers “sensitive words” across the company’s products.