words

Two tomes demonstrate the bountiful contributions of Americans to the English language, offering a circus of words and expressions.

In a recent episode of "American Thought Leaders," host Jan Jekielek interviewed Dr. Syed Haider. As they discussed ...

Parents may be challenged by their child’s homework frustration—“Why do I have to do these writing assignments? I ...

Truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance (or in Chinese, zhen 真 shan 善 ren 忍), sound like the ideal principles ...

Like spices in our recipes, language can liven up our senses. In his blurb to Willard R. Espy’s ...

Language is being altered, and as definitions are being changed, the narratives using this language have likewise become ...

Reading aloud with family or friends gives us the opportunity for shared emotions: laughter, tears, pleasure, and wonder. 

Long ago, when I was a kid, I watched a television advertisement for Anacin that remained stuck in ...

This story is a fictional account, but it is a poem that appears in the popular book "Chicken ...

A woman nearly jumped out of a window after a conflict with her husband over their baby only ...

Language is a beautiful thing. Unfortunately, some words cannot be translated accurately into English, but they have wonderfully ...

You know that tip-of-the tongue feeling, where you're trying to remember the correct word to use for something? ...

Merriam-Webster has released its new dictionary words for 2014. Most of them relate to social media like hashtag, ...