WORDS

Let me put this right up front. The headline to this post is slightly misleading, but not dishonest.

By some accounts, the average person owns 19 pairs of shoes. But it’s not just our closets that are overflowing with sneakers, loafers, pumps, and wedges. It’s also our vocabulary.

These common birds are masters of the four-letter word.

Sometime around the 7th century, a grammarian got fed up and started collecting all the annoying mistakes that people kept making in Latin. He wrote them up in the 'Appendix Probi,' a straightforward list of the “say this, not that” variety.

You keep using that word…

Your beloved pup is paying attention both to what you say and how you say it.

While 'awesome' was going on its journey from bad to good, 'awful' was going in the opposite direction.

It's difficult enough to write a sentence that doesn't contain the popular vowel. (There are eight right there.)

The long tradition of bullying means a long list of words for bullies, many of which are lost in the mists of time. Though some words show traces of the wide-ranging history of bully—which originally was a tear of endearment—most of the following terms wo

The skin is the largest organ in the human body, covering a surface area of nearly 2 square meters. Skin covers a great deal of the English language, too, if we look to its many skin-related words, expressions, and idioms.

Though the terms are often used interchangeably, there is a difference between the two. And it's all in the shape of things.

These famous folks managed to convey a great deal of meaning through just one word.