The Pushkin Institute conducted a study using artificial intelligence, as a result of which the longest word in the modern Russian language was revealed. Pavel Katyshev, head of the Department of ...

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., delivered a stark warning during a Monday press conference on Day 13 of the government shutdown. "We're barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history ...

The English language is full of fascinating patterns, exceptions, and creative spellings that make it one of the most studied languages in the world. Among these linguistic wonders are words that ...

Laurence Watkins has an awful lot of middle names (Picture: Guinness World Records) When first being introduced to Laurence Watkins, you might not immediately notice anything record-breaking about him ...

When I was a kid, I was wrong about so many things. I thought craneflies, or daddy longlegs, were the “most poisonous spider in the world,” but had no way of administering their toxins (wrong on many ...

Countdown has delighted TV fans, number crunchers and word fanatics for more than forty years, becoming a firm favourite of easy viewing television lovers. Now, one of its stars has revealed ...

The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (ironically a super long word) or simply sesquipedalophobia. It’s a real phobia tied to ...

It’s certainly oddly fitting that the fear of long words is named with one of the longest words in the English language: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. This 36-letter word is practically a ...