You probably use acronyms every day without even realizing it. Some abbreviations get used so much they just become regular words, and most people have no idea they started as a string of initials. It ...

If the fantastic weather in even the northernmost hockey towns this week wasn't enough indication, there's less than one week until the best time of year: the Stanley Cup playoffs. As pumped as we all ...

What makes some words easier to learn than others? Researchers found that ideophones — words that sound like what they mean — are easier to learn than regular words. This suggests that some of our ...

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 ...

In the 2,000 years of Church history, many religious congregations, societies and religious orders have flourished: from the medicant (Franciscan, Dominican) to the monastic (Benedictine, Trappist) to ...