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You might be wondering why young people are calling each other a type of women’s underwear.But “brah,” is really a version of “bro,” a term with which… -
Metaphorical language is powerful.We use it to make the unfamiliar familiar and to make us see the familiar in a different light.A reporter may speak of…
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When you think about a word like “organic,” we think about how it’s seeded throughout the language.Chemists might contend that “organic” refers to… -
It seems like it will never arrive. But once it does, spring seems like the the only possible way to be.We use the word spring for that time of year when… -
“Inflection point” is a term originating in mathematics that describes the point on a curve at which the direction of the curve changes.Business seems to… -
Considering how much time we spend with screens, we don’t spend much of that talking about the word “screen” and all the ways we use it.The screen on your… -
It’s not so much that there’s more insulting language these days but that it isn’t very good.Calling a Millennial lazy or entitled, for example, simply… -
We’ve probably all been there. In the middle of a heated debate, our frustrated opponent hauls out the ol’ “what about . . .” followed by some horrible… -
For some reason, the word shutdown has been on my mind lately…but let’s look at the word itself. Like many in English, it’s a compound word, and my copy… -
The underpinnings of Donald Trump’s leadership style have often been described as “transactional.”Observers and analysts seem to mean by this term an… -
The holiday season and the year’s end have a lot of people taking stock.Gratitude proliferates on social media, a new thanks for every day, for family and… -
After this year’s midterm elections, news-types spent countless hours trying to decide if the results could be described as a “blue wave” or not.“Blue…
