Have you herd? Groups of animals often have unique, and sometimes funny, names. You’re probably familiar with the collective nouns for common backyard and barnyard animals, such as flocks of birds and ...

The decision to capitalize racial and ethnic group names is not merely a matter of editorial style—it has real consequences ...

Moreover, Rosch's recognition that categories in the mind are organised around prototypes provides us with a way of accounting for the fact that even among what are generally regarded as relational ...

Remember that adding apostrophe followed 's' does not make a plural noun. It is used for contractions and to show possession. For example: ‘We saw lots of bird’s in the garden’ - is ...

Language experts point out that certain sentence constructs using 'because' or 'why' can veer off into questionable ...

There is a whole world out there of brands and businesses that love the sounds of their own voices, yet have nothing of ...

A lexical gap or lacuna is a "missing word" in the vocabulary of a language – a lack of a single word to describe a concept that can be described in a single word in other languages. Some examples of ...

A reader from Rocky Hill, Connecticut, writes with a question about road signs that read "Blind Driveway." She writes: ...

For National Poetry Month, I’ve curated a playlist of seven songs that represent poetic devices like allusion, irony and rhyme. I call it “the wordplaylist.” Prepare to be taken back to middle school ...