When I work with patients, I encourage them to feel as free as possible to say whatever they need to say, using whatever words they need. As you might imagine, this often leads to the occasional (and, ...

In other words, why do so many of us love the words that are like exclamation points? Interesting fact: As far as our brains are concerned, swear works aren’t even words. Think of them as concentrated ...

Linguists tell us that the Anglo-Saxons gave us most of the words we use today. They provided most of the clean ones and nearly every four-letter one you use after slamming a door on your thumb or ...