Dr. Erica Brozovsky of the PBS series Otherwords explained the evolution of “OK” and its alliterative form “okay”, noting that this universally understood word has a number of meanings.

Beyond attraction to ‘both men and women’ The first known use of the word "bisexual" was in 1793, though it meant "possessing characters of both sexes” at the time, according to its Merriam ...

Random is a fighting word for young Spencer Thompson. The comedian posted a video to a Facebook page entitled I Hate When People Misuse the Word Random. "The word random is the most misused word ...

This June, we explored the evolution of the word “pride” and how it became connected with the modern gay rights movement. By Sarah Diamond In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or ...

Figure 1: Frequency plots for rates of lexical evolution in Indo-European across ... may help us to understand the mechanism by which word-use frequency affects rate of evolution.