When we use words to communicate, we not only have to choose what to say, but also what not to say, and how to say it. How we decide to frame a message can influence how people think, feel, and ...

The R-word is making a comeback. Credit: Mashable illustration / Stacey Zhu Once pushed to the margins of acceptable language thanks to campaigns like "Spread the Word to End the Word," the R-word all ...

Yuletide, on the other hand, dates back to the ancient roots of our language. Tide in this context just means "time," while yule was found as geol in Old English, and was originally the name of a ...

Growing up in the US during the oil embargo of the early 1970s, I was bombarded by public service announcements encouraging people to conserve energy. But at a very young age, I also read that “energy ...

In a desperate parenting moment after dinner, I told my six-year-old, who was mid-meltdown, “Use your words!” He had just started yelling and hitting his eight-year-old sister because she wasn’t ...