Across the world’s languages, nouns are surprisingly chameleonic creatures, shape-shifting and category-hopping in ways that ...

The roughly 200 collective nouns in the English language cause a lot of confusion, but there's a simple answer, writes grammar expert June Casagrande.

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 ...

Describing Words helps inspire you with something different. Head to Describing Words and enter the noun you want to write about. The site then gives you a list of descriptors.

The same went for nouns that were more "nouny," like the word "marble." The volunteers used the relationship between how words sound and how they are used to guide their comprehension of sentences.

Not "work." Not "home." It's way, way bigger than that. Imagine someone downloaded all the words on the Internet—every email, every Facebook update, every ebook, scientific report, magazine ...