Words like "bat," "desert," "wind," and "clip" all have multiple meanings but are confusingly spelled the same way.

Words matter. Their meanings matter. If words have no meaning, then the ideas we construct from those words have no meaning, either. This is why Webster’s Dictionary records the definitions and uses ...

Words have meanings defined in the dictionary that can take on other meaning within the context in which they are being used. Never has it been more important that we understand the meaning and use of ...

Expanding your vocabulary is great for your brain.

With analysts and vendors using "technical debt" and other phrases to mean whatever they want them to mean, someone has to defend the language. IT loves buzzwords. But it is now becoming frightfully ...

Fans of ancient history may have thrilled to the news in the New York Times that a mystery was solved: “A Long-Lost Branch of the Nile Helped in Building Egypt’s Pyramids.” A new study, the subheading ...

Words are the tools to foster new ideas, drive knowledge and expand thinking. Academics understand better than most that words have meaning, and we must take that meaning seriously. So, it’s appalling ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...