Back in grade school, words like "onomatopoeia" and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" seemed insanely complicated and long. Surprisingly, neither of these is the ...

Commonly Confused Words: Have you ever used the word access where you should have used excess? Or Have you got confused about ...

The spread of modern technology has changed nearly everything in our lives—including what even the most common of words mean. Rather than invent a word for each novel thing or concept, our language is ...

Using words is a tricky business, trickier than one might expect. In our daily discourses we use verbs, nouns, adjectives, prepositions, all of which are placed in certain tenses, numbers, clauses, ...

Commonly used to describe that extra something added to almost anything, the slang term has a centuries-long history. By Hayley Phelan When you fluff up pillows on your well-worn sofa, or turn your ...

At the point that children utter their first words, a complex set of conceptual, social and linguistic mental capacities are at work, Yale researcher Paul Bloom reports in his new book, “How Children ...

The word "piqued" has more meanings than you might think! “If you need me, I’ll be scrolling through Netflix, looking for something that piques my interest.” While the last three words of this ...