Are you a “verb” person or a “noun” person? Does it matter? Knowing how you relate to the world around you does matter. In the grand scheme of things, it isn’t critical whether you coordinate your ...

ONE major word-formation process in English is to use the noun itself as a verb to express the action conveyed or implied by the noun, but without changing in any way the form of the noun. This direct ...

Linguists have long believed that the sound of a word reveals nothing about its meaning, with a few exceptions of words like “buzz” or “beep” that are known as onomatopoeia. But a new study analyzing ...

Every few weeks, I get another missive from a reader angry about the common use of certain nouns as verbs. The most frequent irritant is "to impact", which annoys conservatives, but people have also ...