You know the classic examples of onomatopoeia like “boom,” “splat,” and “pow,” but there are plenty of words you use every day that are also onomatopoeia!

Columnist and author June Casagrande ponders singular vs. plural nouns, plus the nagging questions behind subject-verb ...

This week’s word: ... a meaning, an etymology, and lexicographical citations, which make it a word. Example: From the January-February 2015 issue of Mother Jones, ...

For example, if you wanted to find another word for ‘nice’ in a thesaurus: You start by finding the words beginning with ‘n’, then ‘n-i’, ...

A subordinating conjunction is simply the word/words that is used to join a subordinating clause to another clause or sentence. For example: He was annoyed, the train had stopped.