For the 17th year, Wayne State University's "Word Warriors" shared 10 underused words they are trying to bring back into ...

There are many ways to describe the English language, but one word that describes its characteristics best is rich. The ...

Respondents to an annual Michigan college survey of overused and misused words and phrases say “6-7” is “cooked” and should ...

The English language grows a little more every year. It becomes richer, warmer, and more diverse as people across the world create new words. It borrows expressions from other cultures or changes the ...

That last one? “Barm” refers to the froth on fermenting beer or yeast… so apparently, a few bakers and brewers snuck into the data too. When researchers grouped the 1,000 most-searched definitions by ...

When I was a kid, I was wrong about so many things. I thought craneflies, or daddy longlegs, were the “most poisonous spider in the world,” but had no way of administering their toxins (wrong on many ...

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