I promptly closed the book with a feeling of relief. If Tolkien could do it, so could I. I just needed some delicious words to write down in fancy script. When we see Minas Tirith as a dot on that map ...

Words associate with each other in a manner of intricate clusters^1-3^. Yet the brain capably encodes the complex relations into workable networks^4-7^ such that the onset of a word in the brain ...

We're going to find out, thanks to the Oxford Dictionaries' "One Word Map" campaign, which is asking the public to share their least favorite English word — and the word currently ranked number ...

Nothing highlights regional language quirks quite like a good map, so check out these "swear word maps" that show which regions in the U.S. prefer which swear words. We're such a classy bunch ...