For example, one of the things about modern English that would most strike a time traveler from the past is the frequency of “I was like …” among younger speakers, as in “And I was like ‘You don’t ...

Derived from the manosphere acronym “AMOG,” or “Alpha Male of the Group,” to “mog” someone means to visibly outshine them: to ...

Americans are living in parallel AI universes. For much of the country, AI has come to mean ChatGPT, Google’s AI overviews, ...

The Times sticks to facts and avoids language that passes legal judgment on events that are still unfolding. By Susan Wessling Susan Wessling is the Standards editor of The Times, leading a team of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nothing's worse than confidently saying a word for years only to discover you've been pronouncing it wrong the entire time.

“Wuthering Heights” director Emerald Fennell sat down with Fandango this week to explain the quotation marks in the title of the upcoming Emily Brontë adaptation. The film stars Margot Robbie as Cathy ...

It was just another closing shift at a quiet coffee stand in Anchorage. But when a masked man forced 18-year-old Samantha Koenig out at gunpoint, everything changed. What he didn’t know was that she ...

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

The start of a new year is a time for resolutions. But before you make a list of goals, do one simple thing: Set an intention. Thinking about your intentions can help clarify your values, goals and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As someone who’s originally from Southern California and now lives in the South, it’s not uncommon for me to get Valley girl ...

As someone who’s originally from Southern California and now lives in the South, it’s not uncommon for me to get Valley girl comments. I have a habit of throwing in a quick “you know, like” or “so ...

In the Curator’s Words is an occasional series that takes a critical look at current exhibitions through the eyes of curators. Visions Museum of Textile Art’s vision statement gets right to the heart ...