List of All Articles with Tag 'words'

We’re all familiar with the feeling of having an idea or subject stuck in your head that makes it difficult to think about anything else. But why (and when) did we start comparing that experience to a bee buzzing around in your hat?

Back slang is kind of like a lexical puzzle that everyone from costermongers and criminals of the Victorian era to today’s Wordle fans can appreciate.

Need a better word to describe what ails you? Look no further than this list of old, unusual ways to describe your aches, pains, and whatever else is happening in your body.

K-Pop superstar Jung Kook says making their own tracks will boost the band's bond when they reform.

When TVs became popular in the 20th century, some people started calling it ‘the tube.’ That nickname soon spawned an even catchier one: ‘the boob tube.’

Pluralizing a last name can seem confusing—and it gets even more confusing when you want to make a name both plural and possessive. Here’s how to correctly do both.

All you need for this easy grammar check is a couple of pronouns you already know how to use correctly.

The f-word is often thought of as the most useful and flexible word in English. Whether that’s true or not, the term is so successful that it’s spawned dozens of euphemisms. Here are a few of them.

Here’s why some homophone examples also work as homograph and homonym examples.

If you want to take your Spanish to the next level (or el siguiente nivel), why not brush up on these idioms?

Is it coleslaw or cold slaw? Deep-seated or deep-seeded? There are right answers, but the wrong ones seem kind of right, too.

Sometimes words move up in the world. Their meanings change with time, becoming more positive—a process linguists call amelioration.