Making peace involves many words, as does a vast spectrum of other worthy human actions - thinking, inventing, intervening, leading, recognising, organising, entertaining, loving, praying.

I was talking lately with a French lady, who admitted that English was a much richer language than her own, and that it had words to express ideas and actions which must go unexpressed in French ...

Covid-19 has set a new record for being accepted into the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

Joel Fagliano knows how to listen. By Caitlin Lovinger SUNDAY PUZZLE — Yep, there’s no theme today, and there aren’t many entries, either — 124, which is tied for a record low Sunday word ...

Do Inuit languages really have many words for snow? The most interesting finds from our study of 616 languages Story by Charles Kemp, Ekaterina Vylomova Temuulen Khishigsuren, Terry Regier • 2w ...

An “authorism” is a word, phrase or name created by an author or journalist—a literary neologism. It was coined for the express purpose of giving a name to my new book Authorism: Words ...

American magazine ads from the 1940s referenced World War II, obliquely or directly, to an extent that is utterly mind-boggling today.

Physics Why the words we use in physics obscure the true nature of reality Simple words like "force" and "particle" can mislead us as to what reality is actually like.

But my big problem with magazines is that I tend, um, they tend to have word lengths. That I try really hard to hew to and then sort of get into it and exceed.

A Word, Please: Grammar rules change over time, and many of them aren’t even real By June Casagrande April 9, 2021 2:58 PM PT ...