Benjamin M. Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University and a faculty member in the NuLab for Texts, Maps and Networks, created a database based on the words used in 14 ...

The phrase that can send your web project off the rails, ... (MoneyWatch) I've built a half-dozen websites, with three or four different developers, over the course of my businesses.

A monumental event has occurred in my household. I purchased my Word of the Day calendar today. No, you don’t understand. This is big for me. I am fascinated by words. This is a helpful passion ...

Abbrevs & The Like: How Web-Words Are Crossing Over. January 24, 2014. In recent years, a new set of words has emerged — words like totes, meaning 'totally'; adorbs for 'adorable'; and LOLs ...