Britain's brilliant Olympic weekend has provoked intriguing questions. What is Yngling? Does Chris Hoy wear normal trousers? Where's the smog? And why would silver medallists cry?

Vocabulary is a word I rarely use. When I do, it is usually in the context of a word not in someone or other’s vocabulary, in an effort to define him or her. As in, “The word ‘hygiene’ is not in his vocabulary.”

MILFORD — Atahan Ogulturk is an entrepreneur, fluent in French and his native Turkish and the owner of a construction company in Turkey. But Ogulturk, 43, who came to the United States 10

If you have ever misheard a song or poem and come up with your own version of the words, you are already familiar with the concept of the "mondegreen," one of over 100 new words included in the annual update of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary

This is a fascinating and complex book, highly controversial and often infuriating, in which the Canadian developmental psychologist Susan Pinker attempts to draw together all the evidence proving that there are vast gender differences.