When my 9-year old nephew asked his parents what a kerfuffle was, they said, “It’s like a brouhaha.” My nephew followed up, “What’s a brouhaha?” And his parents, in a move no lexicographer would ...

We don’t mean to raise a fuss, but why is kerfuffle elbowing its way into American letters? The Wall Street Journal is partly to blame for this twee word’s infiltration. When it called the controversy ...

Shashi Tharoor shared pics from his Maldives vacation on Twitter. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is no stranger to strange and rarely-used words. His extensive vocabulary, seen in his tweets, often leaves ...

On Tuesday, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld addressed his dispute last week with Benjamin Hall, a correspondent for the network who was injured on Monday while reporting on the ground in Ukraine. Gutfeld ...

"Gherkin" — I like saying it. It's vaguely Indian sounding. "Kerfuffle." That's just fun, with so many F's packed into three syllables. "Diphthong" is sly because it's hiding a silent H, the H right ...