A single word has the power to evoke great emotion in us. Take me, for example: The word "taxes" will literally bring me to tears, while "wine" is akin to winning the lottery. So what are each country ...

America is a wonderfully large and diverse country in every respect, particularly linguistically. Regional divisions tend to have enormous effects on the way we speak and the words we use — linguistic ...

You remember a word ladder is where we start at the bottom of a ladder, and we write a word, and then we change or add or delete a sound, and make a brand new word. And we keep doing that all the way ...

U.S. playwright Rita Mae Brown said: "Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going." That quote comes to mind looking at these fascinating ...

What’s one word that you can’t seem to spell right? (For me, since I do a lot of writing about music, I’m often stumped by “Pharrell,” as in Pharrell Williams, the dude behind “Happy” and a ton of ...