It's more than a trend, it's a movement, which is why the editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary have declared carbon neutral the word of the year for 2006. It will be added to the next ...

When I need to picture possible winning words, I utilize Xs to spell out the correct letters I know so far. So far, the ...

But more interesting, at least to word-collectors like me, is that their names all come from Native American languages.  They ...

Some researchers dream of solving all mysteries with a common method—but a mathematical paradox may keep such solutions out ...

For example, in Chapter 7 I found that in all the American corpora, at every time period there are significantly higher references to words relating to law and order than in their respective British ...

From TikTok to the kitchen table, words like “rizzler” and “skibidi” are finding a foothold in the lexicon of today’s tweens.

Henry W Fowler, author of Modern English Usage (1926), and Wilson Follett, author of Modern American Usage (1966), both included “barbarisms” as headwords in their guides. Fowler defined them as ...

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Some of the ways in which we describe timber harvesting go back over a hundred years. Since then, meanings for some of the words have been lost. For the record, let’s try to set straight a few of ...

I cannot downsize my memories. Downsize is such a popular word today and usually interpreted as getting rid of things. That’s ...

The Guilford Native American Association will hold its 47th annual “Pow Wow” from Friday, Sept. 20 through Sunday, Sept. 22 ...

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