You may know how your partner likes their pizza and their favorite sex position. But all the melted cheese and orgasms in the world can’t save a romance if you don’t know how to communicate.

In addition to being one of the most fun words to say—and hardest to spell—in English, “onomatopoeia” probably calls to mind a whole bunch of silly, fun words. Onomatopoeia is the process of creating ...

For 20 years, a chasm of words has yawned between the children of college-educated professionals and those of high school dropouts, quantifying the academic disadvantage faced by the latter group long ...