These are very simple and common words but being unique, we cannot apply the comparative method to them and therefore cannot reconstruct their origins. These "proper words" represent an exciting ...

Word of the Day: Catapult-More than 1.5 million English-language articles and posts used the word “catapult” online in the past year, according to aggregated media monitoring data. The term trends ...

Many of the words that came to be in the 1970s have become staples in today's vocabulary while others have simply faded out of fashion. Using Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler feature, Stacker compiled ...