These are very simple and common words but being unique, we cannot apply the comparative method to them and therefore cannot reconstruct their origins. These "proper words" represent an exciting ...

Word of the Day: Catapult-More than 1.5 million English-language articles and posts used the word “catapult” online in the past year, according to aggregated media monitoring data. The term trends ...

Detail from Tacuinum Sanitatis, a 14th-century handbook of medieval health. The naming process, the act of naming the items of the world, is as old as the first words spoken by our ancestors. We can ...