Poilu - roughly pronounced pwa-loo - translates literally as ‘hairy one’. The word poil means 'hair' but in humans more ...

And if you’re a true dictionary lover, then you can always name your child “Merriam” or “Webster,” in honor of the oldest dictionary publisher in the United States. All jokes aside, word names offer ...

You can’t escape a certain sound. You’ll hear the click-clack of typewriter keys and the sputter of a knob turning the rubber ...

Niche—it’s a funny word. It comes from the French term of the same spelling, which originally referred to a recess in a wall ...

Farmers who rallied through Westminster say changes to inheritance tax rules as a 'betrayal' that could lead to food ...

Pierre Goldman grew up under the shadow of the Holocaust, filled with anger, guilt and a drive to emulate the revolutionary ...

PARIS: France's Environment Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher will stay away from the COP29 global climate change conference in ...

The railway unions are calling for a strike on Thursday and are planning a further strike in December. They are denouncing ...

On this date in 1986, a 19-year-old Bronx man by the name of Larry Davis was engaged in a shootout with over 25 NYPD officers ...

In 1944, as Allied troops celebrated D-Day victory, a French family experienced a trauma that would be felt for generations: ...

The full ninth edition of the Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française has been presented to France's President Macron.