All words belong to a word class. It’s that word’s type: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, determiners and exclamations. These are all word classes. Consider the ...

As it turned out, Sameer Mishra provided more than just comic relief at the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee. He ended up winning the title. The 13-year-old from West Lafayette, Indiana, who often ...

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Robert wrote to us with the following question about the word "class," and a great lead-in to its entry into the Glossary of Confusing Words: Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary lists the ...

The afternoon of Jan. 6 took a confusing turn for Tristan McGarity, 13, and his classmates when their teacher at Dobie Junior High School used a word in class that he was taught never to say. It was ...

Emory University has removed a law professor from the classroom as it investigates student reports that he used the N-word in a class discussion earlier this month. The professor, Paul Zwier, director ...