If you have a paid subscription of Microsoft Office on your system, then you can use the same for counting words in Notepad. The reason is that Microsoft Word has an in-built word counter. All you ...

When I was a kid, it was common to call someone a “retard.” Nowadays, it’s impolite and not politically correct, but it was just a part of life back then. It was never said maliciously toward someone ...

Once upon a time, the English language was full of stories with “blossoms,” “rivers,” and “moss.” But these words are disappearing from our vocabularies — and along with them, our connection to the ...

For the better part of the past 20-odd years, I’ve begun most of my classes with a prompted freewrite. A statement by 20th-century Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein is not only a go-to prompt ...

English is evolving faster than ever — and the Cambridge Dictionary’s 2025 update proves it. This year, a record 6,212 new words and meanings have been added, reflecting the huge influence of social ...

The Democratic Party is being told to cut “woke” words and phrases from its vocabulary because they alienate voters. A memo developed by the centre-left think tank Third Way has revealed a list of 45 ...

NEW YORK -- Jelena Ostapenko apologized on social media Saturday, three days after telling American Taylor Townsend that she had "no class" and "no education" following their second-round match at the ...

Venezuela’s president has accused the US of attempting to carry out regime change in the South American country, and warned he will respond in kind to any attack by warships patrolling near its coast.

The Dems have a novel strategy as they look towards 2028: sound normal. This comes from a new policy memo, published online by left-leaning think tank Third Way, that suggested politicians scrap 44 ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited his father, Robert Kennedy, a former U.S. attorney general and senator from New York, while testifying on Capitol Hill about backlash over the Trump ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. TIKTOK: Skibidi, skibidi toilet. PERSON: I don't know, all I know is that it has something to do with a ...