(102) A powerful condemnation of the misuse of words, done with words and an illustration that it is an inescapable and abiding fact is that we live in and by language.

This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. ... Words must be used many times to say what they were not created to say, before they lose meaning.

Like many stories, this is one that starts with a writer -- sitting in a bar. "There's a literary legend," says Smith magazine memoir editor Rachel Fershleiser, "that Ernest Hemingway was once ...

In honor of the 10th anniversary of Oprah Magazine the editors compiled inspirational quotes from people such as Virgil, Martin Luther King, Jr., Cecil Beaton and others to create "Words That Matter." ...

The writers who create large bodies of new words tend to be those who are creating a world apart, whether it is Orwellian (Big Brother, 1984, “doublethink,” “newspeak”) or one seen through ...

How many words does the average English speaker know? So, if a million words is the absolute upper echelon, how does that compare with the approximate vocabulary of most English speakers?

We were especially interested in testing the idea that Inuit languages have many words for snow. This notorious claim has long been distorted and exaggerated.