Take four minutes to think of 10 nouns that are unrelated to one another and as far apart from each other in meaning as possible. Your score will reveal how creative you are, according to ...

Here are some words that have lost meaning. Skip to main content. A Trusted Friend in a Complicated World. ... her creative nonfiction piece “Anticipation” was published in th ...

Marvin Minsky has written about "suitcase words." Using examples like "consciousness," "emotions," "memory," "thinking," and "intelligence," the MIT Media Lab professor observes that a suitcase ...

8. dapper. While "dapper" took on its current meaning rather early (mid-15th century), the word comes from the same spelling in Middle Low German, which meant "strong" or "stout." ...

Words sometimes have two meanings, as Led Zeppelin sang in “Stairway to Heaven.” And indeed they often do. Especially, words can acquire new meanings and lose old ones. For example ...

To think of language as a list of words with set meanings is like thinking of the position of the clouds right now as somehow fundamental rather than as a passing moment. Attempts to ban all ...