Our 'Love Affair' With Euphemisms In Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms, author Ralph Keyes explores the power of words and our power over them.Keyes tells host Robert Siegel he's always ...

Public companies are obligated to tell investors how tariffs could affect corporate financial results. But some are trying to ...

Thanks to marketing, we now express ourselves with euphemisms: words or expressions that are substituted in order to make a blunt or unpleasant truth seem less harsh. Putting a good spin on things, ...

Abstractions, euphemisms and clichés all served as “the defence of the indefensible”. Orwell lamented how “Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads ...

Grandpa went on a long trip. We took the dog to the farm. Euphemisms for death abound, and it's easier to lie to kids and skip an uncomfortable, unsettling conversation. But those euphemisms might ...

Euphemisms like “restore Roe” take advantage of the rampant distortions about complicated abortion laws that abound in this country. If proponents of abortion-permissive laws want unrestricted ...

It is not as if language does not help me here, with every culture having dozens of euphemisms to cover any eventuality. Euphemisms are devised to make facts seem sweeter and easier to accept ...

At death cafe meetings, people are encouraged not to use euphemisms for death. We are all familiar with euphemisms that people use when discussing death and have likely used them ourselves.