The word “amazing” simply fails to amaze anymore. It’s high time for someone to put a halt on the most over-used adjective in the English language. All we hear these days is: “This salad is amazing;” ...

Thanks to the evolution of language, technology, and lots of hyperbole, these words used to convey a lot more merit, emotion, or simply seriousness than they do nowadays. Ah, “genius.” Once reserved ...

Word meanings can shift radically, just like pronunciation. Called semantic change, a shift in a word's meaning occurs when frequent misuse becomes standard, or when metaphoric use becomes literal.

Some holiday words have more than one meaning, like "trim" the tree. And some meanings have more than one word, like "gift" ...

Some time ago, I fell into conversation with a colleague about what we had been reading lately, and the person suggested that I absolutely must give Henry James’s “The Ambassadors” a try. The pandemic ...