If you’re reading this, chances are you’re well acquainted with Google Maps. For many, Google Maps – with its wealth of way-finding features – will rank highly among their most prized apps. But what ...

Sometimes in Germany the forecaster will tell you that tomorrow's weather will be freundlich. Literally, of course, it just translates as "friendly", but the term gets over the problems encountered by ...

We know that it's often difficult to engineers to communicate with non-technical audiences. In our world, ordinary words have unique meanings, acronyms abound, and barely comprehensible utterances, ...

OXFORD - Imagine a timber crew idling around their pickups in the moist, early-morning silence of a pine forest, waiting for their workday to begin. A tardy member of the crew pulls up, kills his ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. WORDS are being kicked, pummelled, stretched and squeezed every day, and hardly anyone notices or cares. So why should anyone reach for ...

Words help us communicate, but they can also bore us to tears. People are gullible at work, they have a fear of failure. Blah, blah, blah. The following words add some spice to conversations, emails, ...

"In the same way that emotions were once judged too vague for scientific study, but now have thriving fields, we hope that the study of spiritual experience follows suit" -(David Yaden & Andrew ...

When we use words to communicate, we not only have to choose what to say, but also what not to say, and how to say it. How we decide to frame a message can influence how people think, feel, and ...

I admit that I am a word nerd who loves to learn new words just for the fun of it. But there’s a serious and practical reason to boost your store of unusual and little-known words even if English was ...