Compared with other widely spoken languages, English has few guardrails against the will of the masses. We have no governing body equivalent to the Real Academia Española, much less the notoriously ...

The days of having a dictionary on your bookshelf are numbered. But that’s OK, because everyone already walks around with a dictionary – not the one on your phone, but the one in your head. Just like ...

Writers know that a single word can shift a person’s mood entirely. Do “mother” and “mom” mean the same thing? Technically, yes, but do they mean the same to you? Words work like spotlights in that ...