Sitting on my patio the other day, listening to the birds, sipping a glass of raspberry seltzer, and admiring the contrast of the orange day lilies with the blue and pink hydrangea, I was reminded of ...

Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. Each week, we take a close look at words and expressions commonly used in American English. But, let's be honest. Language is not fair.

English speakers may be sleeping on "diaphanous." The language-learning app Babbel asked 1,500 members of the Poetry Society of America to pick the most beautiful word in English, tapping into a short ...

Hard question, but I think I'm going to go with euphoria. What do you think? CHANG: Ooh. I like that. I think I would say onomatopoeia. Well, recently, over a thousand poets and poetry enthusiasts ...

That’s what happened recently when a reader, who had seen my column from last year breaking down the subtle differences between the words empathy and sympathy, referred me to an insight from Susan ...