Move over, Broadway — this week the sun will take center stage in New York City during golden hour with the first ...

Considered the Super Bowl of its kind, it’s National Spelling Bee week, and this isn’t your typical New York Times Spelling ...

The best young spellers in the English language are competing at the 97th Scripps National Spelling Bee, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The event ...

The first bee was held in 1925, when the Louisville Courier-Journal invited other newspapers to host spelling bees and send ...

Parents agonize over what to name their children because they believe it may become the basis of a first impression. They're ...

Etiquette expert William Hanson breaks down the dos and don’ts across the Atlantic — from tea time to table settings ...

Samuel Johnson was an English author and lexicographer who lived between the years of 1709 and 1784. He is best remembered by ...

There’s a reason spelling bees are only common in English-speaking countries: English spelling is absurd. Even the most ...

Eight Irish English, or Hiberno-English, words that are "untranslatable" or "cannot be translated into another" are included in the Oxford English Dictionary's (OED) March 2025 update. The OED is ...

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But it would be nice to think that one definition would be crowned at the top of the page: “One of the greatest outside contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary.” ...