Are you a gamer? If you’re French, it seems that you shouldn’t be using so much English in pursuit of your goals. It’s a feature of an active language, that it will readily assimilate words from ...

Armand joined us in the JOLLY studio to teach us some useful French words we'd never even heard of before! Franklin sheriff ...

Is it apéro o'clock yet? Paris metro station renaming, part of an April Fools joke. Photo by JACQUES DEMARTHON / AFP Certain French linguists use up a lot of angst on the many anglicisms that creep ...

What keeps Vermonters from venturing to Québec more often? Whether they admit it or not, for most Anglophones, it’s the official language of: French, aka français — and not the kind you learned in ...

This is becoming a buzz word in French cities, but has nothing to do with vegetables. Végétalisation - roughly pronounced vay-jay-tah-li-za-shun - is one of those words that doesn't have a perfect ...

Dictionary of Untranslatables is a word-lovers dream: over a thousand pages of lexical discoveries and mysteries, histories and evolutions. Edited by Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, and ...

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Stefan Fatsis, author of Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players, about Nigel Richards' win. The new world ...

The Académie Française, founded in the 17th century under Louis XIV, views itself as the guardian of the French language – but a group of linguists says the words the institution chooses to protect or ...