Whether or not they pull out these rare words to flex on everyone else and make others feel less intellectual than them, ...

Researchers Have Theories As To Why In A Nutshell The study tested made-up words, not actual profanity. Researchers created ...

The word “schadenfreude” is a noun that is defined as pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune. The word ...

The original definition of the word “bias,” when it entered the English language in the 16th century, was a diagonal line, and specifically one that cut across the warp or weft of a woven fabric. It ...

The year 2025 has been a very busy one for me in terms of drafting legal briefs on some issue or another. This means that not ...

At first, I was sad to see that the linguist team at the Oxford English Dictionary had picked “rage bait” as the Word of the ...

The book by Ada Boni — its Italian title is “Il Talismano della Felicita” — was first published in 1929, and became a go-to ...

Being somewhat old-fashioned I still love browsing in bookshops. It provides a brief escape to a completely different world, both relaxing and therapeutic. Alas it is a pleasure future generations are ...

The book by Ada Boni — its Italian title is Il Talismano della Felicita — was first published in 1929, and became a go-to ...

We can imagine someone saying “my love is literally a rose,” but that is to use “literally”  metaphorically, as an emphatic adverb, like “really.” ...

The way you own property – as joint tenants or tenants in common – decides who inherits it. Learn the practical and legal ...