Figuring out how many words there are in the English language is complicated for a number of reasons. Let’s start with its roots. What about persona non grata, “an unacceptable or unwanted person,” ...

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Isabel Kloumann and a group of mathematicians at the University of Vermont published a paper in 2012 on positivity in the English language. They took just over 10,000 of the most frequent English ...

Perhaps the biggest collection of words ever assembled has just gone online: 500 billion of them, from 5 million books published over the past four centuries. The words make up a searchable database ...

There are only so many ways to discuss the history of a language, notes Crystal, an honorary professor of linguistics at Bangor University in Wales. There’s the broad development approach (Old English ...

Whether you're writing a product user guide, a personal memoir, steamy novel or a kids' story, free yourself from book template setup hassles by using Microsoft Word. Making books in Word won't limit ...

Three little letters, 645 meanings. Imagine you’re a dictionary editor. For eight hours a day, five days a week, every week until the heat death of the universe or the day human beings stop speaking ...

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