Harper — Literally meaning "harp player," this name works for boys or girls. Sawyer — This moniker means "woodworker," and it ...

It took more than 70 years and tons of volunteer labor to create “the definitive record of the English language”—including an assist from a murderer. When the London Philological Society came up with ...

A Hebrew-language bumper sticker on a Malaysian retiree’s pickup truck has triggered a police investigation and online backlash, reflecting how symbols associated with Israel can quickly ignite ...

Police investigations found that the Hebrew writing on the sticker translates to ‘Malaysia is our home’ or ‘Malaysia is in our hands’. Police have opened an investigation into a viral video showing a ...

When the Hebrew Language Olympiad presents the awards to its 2025 winners in Jerusalem on Friday, one unlikely champ will accept his via a video call from Egypt. Mahmoud, who is Muslim, joined the ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

“Skibidi”, “tradwife”, “delulu” and other slang terms popularised by social media are among thousands of new words to be added to the Cambridge Dictionary this year. Continued remote working has ...

Abraham Elmaleh, eminent lexicographer, has just completed the first complete Hebrew-French dictionary, carefully prepared and attractively printed in a portable format. This small dictionary is to be ...

Hebrew SeniorLife’s Shivani Sahni, PhD, has been named an inaugural 2025 Excellence in Nutrition Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition. The ASN recognized 55 distinguished members for their ...

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The completion of the 3,000th page of the late Eliezer Ben Yehuda’s Hebrew Thesaurus was celebrated at a small gathering of the savants and trustees engaged in preparing for publication the ...

From “girl dinner” to “bed rotting," it can sometimes feel tough to understand the ever expanding lexicon used to describe modern life. To keep up with the times, Dictionary.com added or updated more ...