Social media posts, speeches, advertising slogans and leaflets... Why do some of them inspire us to act while we pass others ...

E nglish is a very rich language, replete with a wealth of idioms, expressions, and turns of phrase to express any thought, ...

You know the classic examples of onomatopoeia like “boom,” “splat,” and “pow,” but there are plenty of words you use every day that are also onomatopoeia!

Or maybe not: according to the esteemed Council, 2010 was the year in which “Spotify” became an official Swedish verb. Unfortunately the verb’s definition is also in Swedish so I can’t ...

Innovation as a verb is the characterization of how we do our work. When Andy Boynton and I wrote about “The Idea Hunter,” it was the hunting that was important, not the hunter; the way that ...

Many of the world’s most-spoken languages—English, Mandarin—are built around constructions that go subject-verb-object. An example would be: Yoda grasped the lightsaber.