The puzzle for Today's Connections includes many words with multiple meanings, making it hard to know what definition to use ...

Compound modifiers can be adverbs, too. Often, these compound adverbs come after the verb: She works part-time. And because ...

At no other stage of English language evolution has there been such rapid growth than in the first quarter of this millennium ...

Bonobos form vocal combinations that reflect structured meaning, suggesting language-like traits evolved millions of years ...

The upshot? As of today, “vegetative electron microscopy” appears in 22 papers, according to Google Scholar. One was the ...

So we seem to be quite flexible in that you might process one language differently from another simply because they have ...

A random variable has a set of values and any of those values could be the resulting outcome as seen in the example of the dice. Random variables can be assigned in the corporate world to ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

Many fitness coaches incorporate mantras or mottos when working with clients for motivation. Experts suggest each person find a particular phrase that speaks to them.

There’s a reason spelling bees are only common in English-speaking countries: English spelling is absurd. Even the most ...

The 79/365 fraction in our example is equal to the 2,164/10,000 fraction ignoring rounding variances. Pro rata is therefore simply taking one fraction and finding its equal given a specific ...

To grasp the power of this lauded quality, think of it less as a mountain than as a flexible, even playful way of seeing ...