Ideophones, or words that sound like what they mean—words whose sound evokes the sensory experience they describe, like swish or twinkle—are easier to learn than other words, a new study finds.

As languages change, so do pronunciations. This list from our friends at Vocabulary.com contains 10 words that have gone ...

Tricky enough, in fact, to land a spot in grammarian Mignon Fogarty’s “101 Troublesome Words You’ll Master in No Time” (St. Martin’s Griffin). “Noisome sounds like noisy,” Fogarty ...

Just don’t say words that sound like racial slurs—it isn’t that complicated.” But many lecturers would indeed find it complicated to self-police for any word that merely sounds like a slur.

Due to its rapid success, the brand name Xerox became interchangeable with the word copy, much like the brand Kleenex has become synonymous ... Asking a colleague to save something on a disk will ...

Splish-splash, boing, bang, thud, sparkle, and pitter-patter are all fun words to say — they also happen to sound exactly like their definition. A study published recently in the Journal of ...

105 Funny Words That Sound Ridiculous but Are Totally Real. ... While it may sound like a modern phrase, “actionable targets” was, well, an actionable target in Orwell’s essay.

Think twice before you use words like “lackaday” or “nonplussed”—they may mean something quite different than what you’d assume.

We're used to things ending in –ies being plurals, but this is another word that's taken unchanged from Latin, and in Latin –ies is a noun suffix, sort of like –tion.

The Top 10: Foreign Words That Sound Like Their Opposite in English. A collection of the worst traps for English speakers abroad. John Rentoul. Saturday 09 December 2017 12:06 GMT. Comments.

Researchers found that ideophones — words that sound like what they mean — are easier to learn than regular words. This suggests that some of our associations between sound and meaning may be ...