As a follow-up to my piece on skunked terms, it might be worthwhile to consider another type of communication that goes by an animal name: weasel words. The term first appeared in print in 1900, in a ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. As a child, I assumed lava would play a bigger part in my life than it has. Yet I haven’t seen lava in person once. I feel ...