There are five main ways of building new words. One is to add things called “suffixes”, which are letters we add to the ends of words to change their meaning slightly. By adding a “-y” to “tree” and ...

We often hear fascinating stories about how things originated: the universe, the wheel, even pizza. But when it comes to the words we toss around every single day without a second thought, it’s wild ...

The Mobile County Sheriff’s Department’s social media post last week of a Christmas tree filled with “thug shots” drew fiery criticism on social media for its unsavory depiction of jailed inmates and ...

Philosophically speaking, a word is not simply a word in the sense that it just exists like a fixed cannon fodder, to be hurled back and forth in the premises of a conversation. Words hold context, ...