Notion is a noun that means an idea, belief, or opinion, especially one that may not be fully formed or deeply thought ...

Apostrophes are equal opportunity humiliators. As I wrote recently, apostrophes incriminate less-word-savvy types by popping up in plurals like “We play bridge with the Smith’s” and “He ...

Adulation is a noun that means extreme praise or admiration, especially when it's more than deserved. It often refers to ...

The roughly 200 collective nouns in the English language cause a lot of confusion, but there's a simple answer, writes grammar expert June Casagrande.

This is confusing, considering it's conventional to use nouns for variables and verbs for functions. What should GlenH7 do, and how can programmers avoid noun/verb naming problems in the future?

4. Proper nouns, slang words, or vulgar or sexually explicit words are not allowed. Contact Word Game creator Kathleen Saxe at [email protected].

Collective nouns are singular in form, “a team,” but refer to a group of two or more people or things. In other words, they’re singular and plural at the same time. And since verbs are ...

Edward Boatman and Sofya Polyakov have crowd-sourced a visual dictionary. Sofya Polyakov and Edward Boatman, right, founders, with Scott Thomas, of The Noun Project. Currently the site is home to over ...

Calm down, Scrabble purists. Turns out rumors about allowing proper nouns in the beloved board game were just rumors. Scrabble expert Stefan Fatsis says the rules have remained virtually unchanged ...

Stop Capitalizing the Word Internet Dictionaries and style guides treat it as a proper noun, but no one else does ...

The 'selfie' is ready for its close-up. On Monday evening, Oxford Dictionaries announced that the Internet-born noun is its international Word of the Year, beating out other of-the-moment verbs ...