What in the word?

Has the internet changed the way new words enter our collective vocabulary? How do dictionary makers figure out what words having staying power and which will be obsolete in a…

Read up on the five words that New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz thinks you should know, then try your hand at a puzzle made by the Planet Word team!

Kathleen Diamond is a trailblazer in the multibillion-dollar language services industry. Here, she describes her experience as an entrepreneur in the 1980s and offers some advice to today’s students and…

Take a look inside the Mundolingua museum, a hidden gem for language lovers in the heart of Paris.

Linguists can tell us a lot about how we learn languages, but they don’t have all the answers. Elissa Newport, head of Georgetown University’s Learning and Development Lab, talks us…

When national security threats appear, we need to be equipped to handle them with more than just manpower — we need language experts too. Bill Rivers, executive director of the…