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The words we use alter perceptions and therefore the expectations we have of ourselves and each other. Language may act as a means of control and coercion, of transforming human relationships and ...

[This list of the most commonly looked-up words at NYTimes.com is from 2009. We’ve since published the lists for 2010 and 2011 — don’t forget to check those out too. —Josh] If The New York Times ever ...

Insecurity, like blood, will out. It makes us feel so vulnerable and exposed that we eventually expose ourselves and become vulnerable. Like a scarlet sock in the load of white wash, insecurity has ...

What do you visualize when you read words such as “person,” “people” or “individual”? Chances are the image in your head is of a man, not a woman. If so, you are not alone. A massive linguistic ...

The Trump administration is waging a linguistic battle across official Washington, seeking to shift public perception of key policies by changing the way the federal government talks about climate ...

When Douglas Adams’s U.S. publisher asked him to substitute something less offensive for the f-word in in his novel Life, the Universe, and Everything (one of the sequels to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to ...