Poetry in a Time of Protest At an airport protest in Miami, my thoughts kept returning to poets whose words are providing me with inspiration and guidance.

Poetry in a Time of Protest At an airport protest in Miami, my thoughts kept returning to poets whose words are providing me with inspiration and guidance.

Carl Reiner Recalls His Final Words to Mary Tyler Moore: ‘You Can Go’ “I remember telling him, ‘She may not hear you, but whisper in her ear that it’s okay to go.' "

These Are the Most Misused Words in English, According to a Harvard Professor First, we learn to say words. Next, we learn to spell words. Finally, we learn to define and properly use words. Well, most words at least.

The Proper Grammatical Use of the Words ‘Affect’ and ‘Effect’ as Both Nouns and Verbs For her very amusingly informative New Yorker series the plain-spoken Mary Norris aka “The Comma Queen” offered her welcome assistance in regard to the words “affect” and &#…

WISE WORDS: 'The Lesson Mary Berry Taught Me' Frances treasures Mary Berry's words of advice.

WISE WORDS: 'The Lesson Mary Berry Taught Me' Frances treasures Mary Berry's words of advice.

Once a Slave, Then a Soldier in a Battle for Freedom and His Family Through the writings of Spotswood Rice and his daughter Mary Bell, historians have pieced together an extraordinary tale of resilience, courage and ultimately triumph.

'The car is tipping!' Final words of homecoming queen to her father Tomas Ramirez got a call at 3am from his daughter Alyssa, 18, (both pictured) who said her SUV was trapped by flooding in Texas. He never spoke to her again. Her body was found the next day.

60 Short But Bizarre Words We Should All Use More But not all big words are a foot and a half long -- or (to use a big word for that) sesquipedalian. Thousands are relatively short -- if not downright stubby -- and include even one-syllable words....