Words. Schools are swimming in them. Children are swimming in them too, and potentially drowning in them. A recent Education Week article discussed the need for students to “learn more words,” stating ...

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It is striking that English color words come from many sources. Some of the more exotic ones, like "vermilion" and "chartreuse," were borrowed from French, and are named after the color of a ...

The idea that the length of a word is a reflection of the frequency with which it is used in order to make language more efficient is a theory that has held sway for decades. With “the”, “of” and “and ...

These four sounds are missing from some of the seven words you can never say on television, and the pattern prevails in other languages too, researchers say. By Elizabeth Preston “Holy motherforking ...

I was expecting a “hello” or “hi,” statements of straightforward recognition. “Hey, you” was more knowing, more familiar. Say it in a crowd, and you place yourself and the other person in a cozy kind ...

One of the most amusing aspects of learning foreign languages is the discovery of hard-to-translate words. These extraordinary words that succinctly pack in them entire universes of cultural nuance ...

Microsoft Word is slowly becoming an A.I. powerhouse. The app, which has existed in one form or another since 1983, can now look for word choice problems, weak language, passive voice, and many other ...