We’ve all heard that the Inuit people have countless words for snow. That’s a bit of a misnomer, but the sentiment is powerful all the same: Some cultures have rewritten language itself in order to ...

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No matter how many emails you send, how many Facebook ads you post, how high you rank in Google search results—all those marketing tactics pale in success when compared with word-of-mouth marketing. A ...

Lamm’s “History of Music” project details every song on Billboard’s Year-End Hot 100 list since 1960. Each colored rectangle in the visualization represents one song, and each column represents one ...

Does the word "innovative" launch you into an eyeroll? Do you heave a sigh at the sight of the word "great"? Maybe you've just read too many press releases. Those words, and 48 more, made Shift ...

Years ago, I set up giant Post-it pads on easels around the library with questions for students. I hoped to get feedback about what they liked and what they wanted to see changed. I entered their ...

As communicators, we pride ourselves on our mastery of language. We like to call out typos, argue about the Oxford comma and rile our siblings by replying to their text messages with grammar ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. No matter what you do for a living, it’s likely that Microsoft Word is a part of your life. The more than 30-year-old application remains ...

In the past two weeks, Secretary of State John Kerry has emerged as the Obama administration’s chief public advocate for punitive strikes against Syria. In a whirlwind tour of Sunday news shows and ...

In honor of the National Spelling Bee, which starts Wednesday, Google decided to see what words people in each of the 50 states struggle to spell. To do this, it looked at Googlesearches of “how to ...