Do you think you have a good vocabulary? We can guarantee you've probably never heard some of these funny words before. Are you one of those people who still giggle when someone says “duty”? Wait ...

Feather duster: Can anyone see the significance of this? Two words crammed together to make one. Kind of like draft dodger. No, I’m not talking about leaky windows and baseball players, either. OK, OK ...

Have you ever had a word all of a sudden lose its normal, expected associations and then reveal itself to you, in all its inherent weirdness? You can get there by repeating a word over and over until ...

Browse through a gluppity-glup Dr. Seuss book or the frabjous poetry of Lewis Carroll and you’ll find words that are simply funny, regardless of their meaning or context. So why are some words ...

Join a group of British English teachers as they react to and guess the meanings of unique Konglish words for the first time.

Upchuck, bubby, boff, wriggly, yaps, giggle, cooch, guffaw, puffball, and jiggly: the top 10 funniest words in the English language, according to a new study. The researchers determined that there are ...

The fine folks at Merriam-Webster define the word extra this way: "More than is due, usual, or necessary." Well, that makes sense, and as someone who has perpetually worn a size extra large, I am more ...

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 ...