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 ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

It can be surprising to discover that the English language sometimes has pleasant surprises in words pronounced one way but meaning something entirely.