I have a confession to make: I am an unabashed logophile. But then you probably are too since you are reading the newspaper. Logophile, of course, means “a lover of words.” A few years ago, an iconic ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. If you were to pick up the Oxford English Dictionary (as Chrysti M. Smith often does), and flip ...

From the era of Renaissance explorations to the time when the British Empire extended its influence worldwide, and continuing into the present, a constant influx of fresh vocabulary has entered the ...