I recently had a conversation with a friend where she aired out her grievances against her boyfriend about a fight they had had the week before. I listened intently as she went into detail about all ...

I know I’m not for everyone. I am not a wordsmith who’s known for a vocabulary that requires a dictionary to pull in readers. When I write, I tend to avoid “big” words because I don’t talk like that.

Today is National Wordsmith Day which, as this website states, “celebrates the weavers of words.” The site elaborates the celebration as follows, “If you have ever read something and it stuck in your ...

The term, long considered a slur for those with intellectual disabilities, is seeing a resurgence on social media and across the political right. By Dan Barry and Sonia A. Rao Late last month, a woman ...

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — As the final pre-competition meeting of the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s word selection panel stretches into its seventh hour, the pronouncers no longer seem to care. Before ...

Reuters bans the use of such emotive terms as terrorist and freedom fighter in its news reports. Broadcasters say they now think twice before using the word disaster to describe such commonplace ...

Co-authored with Eileen Cardillo, DPhil. Just as tip-of-the-tongue moments provoke a unique form of frustration, finding just the right word elicits a particular kind of satisfaction. Every time we ...

In both your business or personal lives, there will be times when you need to persuade people to do what you want, or to see your side of things. But it's easy to go about it the wrong way, and ...