My daughter’s teacher uses curse words in his teaching. She thinks he does it to impress the students. She doesn’t like it and neither do I. What can I do? A hallmark of the stereotypical “cool” ...

Don’t worry: This isn’t a whole post devoted to how you’re technically supposed to say “Well” when someone asks “How are you!” We'll leave our grammar worries back in school. This is about something ...

Josie is a diva in training, according to her father. — -- Josie, 2, is a D.I.T, according to her dad. A D.I.T. is a Diva in Training, FYI. And if you watch the recent video Eric Palonen, her dad ...

Jonathan Culpeper receives funding from the AHRC and the BA. Today it would seem odd to describe a flower with the word “bastard” – why apply a term of personal abuse to a flower? But in Shakespeare’s ...

Dogs are highly sensitive to human language, and certain words or phrases can trigger stress, confusion, or unwanted ...