List of All Articles with Tag 'words'

In this episode of The List Show, episode, we're breaking out some favorite old-timey insults that people should definitely start using again.

The connections between words aren’t always as straightforward as the link between run and runner; often, figuring them out requires the subtle unraveling of linguistic evolution, the kind of detective work that makes etymology so fascinating.

A pronoun slip can be embarrassing, especially if you pride yourself on being generally good at using the language people have asked you to use. Why do pronoun slips happen, and why do we seem to mess up pronouns more than names or other gendered words?

A new iPhone update will spell the end for everyone’s least favorite autocorrect fail.

The years-in-the-making Oxford Dictionary of African American English will offer proper attribution to words and phrases that originated in Black culture.

Learning how to pronounce ‘biopic’ is one thing. Understanding why it’s such a commonly mispronounced word is another.

And how does a range fit into all this?

Why be sweltering and sunburnt when you can be swoly and birsled instead?

Let your freak flag fly, man.

Sure, all books are filled with words—but not quite like this.