Wordsmiths love language, and that includes me. I particularly like quotables, those sentences or phrases that hit my mind like a hammer, leaving them permanently fixed into my brain. So, here goes ...

Gold Derby is serving up Big Brother 28 spoilers all summer long. Read at your own risk! Just when Rick Devens thought he could sit back, relax, and let his eight-person Toolshed alliance do the dirty ...

Adding to the discussion of superfluous words (Letters, 19 June), readers might like to know that my MA thesis many years ago had a section on the use of the word “so” in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in ...

Let’s start with a basic, fundamental truth: The new Olivia Rodrigo album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, is good, potentially even great in the right light. I listened to it while walking ...

English can be confusing, especially when words look nothing like the way they sound. In this video, we are going through 20 of the hardest words to pronounce, including words that even adults still ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Say the powers-that-be determine to site something truly noxious—a radioactive waste dump, a halfway house for child molesters, a data ...

Meet The Dude: Los Angeles County's reigning champion of doing absolutely nothing. Mistaken for a millionaire with the same name, he's swept up into a delightfully wackadoo neo-noir involving a fake ...

Think about a word that looks like its meaning. For instance, the word bed kind of looks like a bed, with the vertical lines resembling the posts at either end. Loop looks very loopy. Some words are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In honor of the film's 25th anniversary this month, key figures from the soundtrack shared their memories with Gold Derby about ...