It’s time to celebrate a new year. Good riddance to 2021, which seemed like a regurgitated, tired sequel of 2020. Here is hoping 2022 won’t be 2020, too. We’re all ready for a new year. What better ...

Thinking about Foucault’s conceptual inventions is always an opportunity to test what language can do. Thinking about Foucault’s conceptual inventions is always an opportunity to test what language ...

Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. The challenge last time was to find a word for “those privileged neologisms that ‘stick’ and become part of ...

The neologism "Pectacles: gladiator movies," a runner-up entry by Brad Alexander for Week 907, a contest to move a word’s first letter to the end. ( Bob Staake for The Washington Post ) Among the ...

Neologism meaning: As the English language constantly evolves to keep pace with new ideas, experiences, and inventions, at the heart of this evolution is the concept of 'neologism', a word that ...

Henry Hitching's review of "Authorisms" by Paul Dickson (Bookshelf, April 21) has a remarkable omission. I'm befuddled by the fact that a review of words coined by world-renowned authors, Shakespeare, ...

I think Forbes' excellent privacy blogger, Kashmir Hill, may have coined (or popularized) a new social media term: bashtag. A bashtag is what happens when a company (McDonald's) tries to start a ...