Have you ever experienced an emotion but couldn't quite describe what you were feeling with words? You're definitely not alone. In an effort to finally put words to those emotions that aren't so ...

A recent headline in the New York Times caught my attention: “City Beekeepers: The Dos and Don’ts of Maintaining an Urban Hive.” The idea of keeping beehives in Manhattan is interesting, of course, ...

And if you’re angry about it, that just proves the point. By Jennifer Schuessler Over the past few months, Jennifer Lawrence, World Series fans and right-wing influencers have all confessed to it. And ...

If there’s one thing Feedback reliably enjoys, it’s a neologism: that is, a newly coined word or phrase. The past five years alone have seen the emergence of “bed rotting” (something Feedback would ...

The American Dialect Society selected a term that refers to the deterioration of online platforms. By Sam Corbin Sam Corbin reported this story in New York, from the American Dialect Society’s annual ...

A New York Times columnist says it’s “much too slangy, regional or what you might even call ethnic to ever gain universal acceptance.” We couldn’t disagree more. The Times column waves “y’all” away as ...

A lot of language experts will tell you to avoid the word “re,” as in, “I’d like to speak to you re scheduling.” It’s pretentious, they say, to use this Latin derivative instead of good old plain ...