Commonly Confused Words: Have you ever used the word access where you should have used excess? Or Have you got confused about which to use-affect or effect? Well, don’t worry as this is not unusual.

How people work out the meanings of new words has been revealed by researchers, who say this is similar to the way in which young children learn language. The researchers said: ''A lot of what infants ...

The human mind is astonishing. We can think through the toughest problems and find the smartest solutions. We can compute answers to the toughest mathematical questions. And we can apply our creative ...

Are you students prepared to improve your English and impress your teachers? Learning new words gives you mental superpowers that help you comprehend more complicated concepts and communicate more ...

New research involving neuroimaging and A.I., describes the complex network within the brain that comprehends the meaning of a spoken sentence. Have you ever wondered why you are able to hear a ...

Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds over 5,000 new words, including " ...

It’s a very satisfying thing to learn that there’s a word for an experience you didn’t know could be described by a word. Learning that, for example, clinomania is an “excessive desire to stay in bed” ...

Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 175, No. 4 (April 2018), pp. 947-968 (22 pages) There is an ongoing debate about the meaning of lexical ...