Call it linguistic precision engineering. The German language permits the creation of words of endless length, many of which refer to laws. Now the country has lost its longest official word ...

A singular German word overflowing with length and precision can flummox an English speaker: from its number of letters to its complex meaning. In the age of COVID-19, more than 1,200 words in ...

Germany has borrowed more than 10,000 American words since 1990 — words like "sorry" and "lounge" and the suffix "-gate." It's a trend that bothers some German purists.

Many languages indicate ownership of something by using the word "of." But English often uses an apostrophe and S, sometimes unnecessarily.

What was once the longest word in the German language, a tongue consisting of many ridiculously lengthy words, is no more. The term ...