WORDS

If you're pauciloquent, then this list is worth reading. If you have pinaciphobia? You may want to be careful.

In Alaska, "going outside" applies to journeys that go beyond than stepping through your front door.

This omnium-gatherum will turn even oliogoglots into omniloquent charmers.

Québec slang, as heard in Montréal and elsewhere, is a remarkable 'méli-mélo' (hodgepodge) of ancient French, more recent borrowings from Arabic- and Haitian Creole-speaking communities, and English loanwords.

These words rarely show up in real life, but they pop up again and again in the crossword world.

Conspiracy theories are everywhere these days. Here are a few old words you can use to describe them while adjusting your tinfoil hat.

Virtually no one in the U.S. or UK had heard of the ghostly term 'poltergeist' before Catherine Crowe put pen to paper.

‘Chicken’ is such a common synonym for ‘coward’ that it probably doesn’t even seem weird. But it is.

From açaí to vichyssoise, you may be pronouncing these food names wrong.

Memorize these if you're a mnemotechnist, but be careful not to come off as magniloquent, lest you make everyone maungy.

The Ohio State University has officially registered a trademark for one of the most common words in the English language.

Double dog dares were around long before Flick resisted one in ‘A Christmas Story.’ But where did dogs come in?