Despite classifying them as a third gender, the Indian government did not establish protections and safeguards against ...

The recent announcement in Tamil Nadu that village names containing denigrating caste references and the word colony would be removed from State records is significant ...

Now that a new semester is about to begin on college and university campuses around the country, including in the Berkshires, this is an appropriate time to review the lexicon ...

For very good reasons, charities have stopped calling boys bad. Ben Bryant investigates why many experts in the UK are ...

For language enthusiasts, the selection of the society’s Word of the Year — its acronym, among those in the know, is pronounced “WHOA-tea” — is a special event.

While there is a clear history of the word being used in aggressive and insulting ways, the meaning (s) and uses of queer have never been singular, simple or stable.

How has the meaning of the word “woke” evolved? Originally a black slang term, the word is now pilloried on both the right and the left ...

Has American society ever been in less basic agreement on what so many important words actually mean? Terms we use daily mean such different things to different people that communication is often ...

Understanding the meaning of the word science has changed over time, but the goals to produce and share knowledge remains the same.

We now live in a Wikipedia society — where anyone can change the meaning of a word to satisfy some misguided or politically correct social engineering goal. Progressives have become masters of ...