As a follow-up to my piece on skunked terms, it might be worthwhile to consider another type of communication that goes by an animal name: weasel words. The term first appeared in print in 1900, in a ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. As a child, I assumed lava would play a bigger part in my life than it has. Yet I haven’t seen lava in person once. I feel ...

Some of the worst abuses of the English language today occur in education, and one that I dislike particularly is the suffix "-based” when applied to pedagogical methods. In particular, the terms ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Democratic candidate Tim Walz, during the vice presidential debate in which he said he ‘misspoke’ about being in Hong Kong during ...

I wasn’t going to write another column about Donald Trump this month. Rather, I was going to write about what we old-timey ad guys called “weasel words,” words whose purpose was (still is) to deceive ...

As a child, I assumed lava would play a bigger part in my life than it has. Yet, I haven’t seen lava in person once. I feel like I overprepared myself for lava and underprepared myself for scheduling ...