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

Here are all the 7 Little Words Answers for January 3, 2026! 7 Little Words is a take on crosswords by providing clues, but instead of having to think of the answer totally on your own, it utilizes ...

Practicing inclusive language and design helps to get and keep customers, boost employee engagement, can help avoid embarrassing PR when the wrong words are used, and more. True story. My assistant ...

Wordle, the daily word guessing game, is taking Twitter, the world, and my relationship by storm. If you haven’t heard of it—how?—the rules are simple. Every day there’s a new five-letter word (a ...

Free Expression: Five words including ‘affordability,’ ‘socialism’ and ‘redistricting’ took on new, politically convenient meanings in 2025. English is an especially vibrant language. The meaning of ...

Do you think you have a good vocabulary? We can guarantee you've probably never heard some of these funny words before. Are you one of those people who still giggle when someone says “duty”? Wait ...

In a previous post, I examined the psychological power of conjunctions, especially that warm, fuzzy, inclusive conjunction: and. Here we expand our focus to the psychological power of words in general ...

Zynga, a San Francisco-based gaming company, likes to tout the fact that people around the world are playing about 57 million “matches” on Words With Friends at any given moment. Impressive as the ...

Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, a new study found. This 'million word gap' could ...

We recognize words as pictures As your eyes scan these words, your brain seems to derive their meaning instantaneously. How are we able to recognize and interpret marks on a page so rapidly? A small ...

Before babies learn to use the language spoken in their home, they babble and coo, playing with sound. That's baby talk, and baby talk sounds similar the world over. Babbling and cooing are all part ...