Words like "bat," "desert," "wind," and "clip" all have multiple meanings but are confusingly spelled the same way. ... The word even has a noun form, which is an object that helps attach two things.

Sofya Polyakov and Edward Boatman, right, founders, with Scott Thomas, of The Noun Project. Around 150 years ago an etymologist named James Murray initiated a massive crowdsourcing project: the ...

You might think nouns are the most straightforward part of language. After all, they’re just words for people, places, and things, right? Think again. Across the world’s languages, nouns are ...