Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...

Developed using Anthropic’s Claude AI model, the new language is intended to provide memory safety without garbage collection ...

The Oxford University Press, which publishes the dictionary, announced that its Word of the Year this year is “rage bait,” which it defines as a noun meaning: “Online content deliberately designed to ...

On December 1, 2025, the publisher Jiyū Kokumin Sha announced its 10 finalists for the Japanese-language words or phrases of the year, along with the grand-prize winner: Hataraite, hataraite, ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

No matter whether your Word is stuck with German, Spanish, French, or any other language, you must identify the language first. Only then will you be able to change it to something that you know.

President Trump’s decision to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War might strike skeptics as a silly distraction, and supporters as a brilliant rebranding. Historians may see it in ...

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 ...

When it comes down to it, everyone likes praise. It feels good to know that someone appreciates and cares about us. But for some, verbal acknowledgements are key to expressing love and, in turn, ...

From "yeet" to "social distancing," new words and phrases constantly emerge and evolve in American English. But how do these neologisms—newly coined terms—gain acceptance and become part of mainstream ...

Word already displays the number of words in a document in its status bar for all versions. This number appears at the bottom, second to the right after the number of pages in the document. If you ...