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 ...

To the editor: Thanks to Robin Abcarian for her column on the weasel word “problematic.” For years the use — now ubiquitous — of the word itself been deeply, well, problematic. The best demonstration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ben Stiller promotes his movie "Tropic Thunder," deemed by some as "problematic" for its portrayal of certain characters, in Paris ...