When you're talking about someone who really, really loves books, you pretty much reach for the words "bookworm" or "bibliophile" every time, right? They're great words! Growing up, I know I got ...

"Smoot" is one of 10,000 new words featured in the fifth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary, out this month. In an era when every definition is just a click away, why publish an enormous book ...

Are you a lifelong logophile, a voracious vocabularian, or a savvy sesquipedalian? If so, you've come to the right place. Between books, texts, emails, articles, and Wikipedia rabbit holes, we all ...

Some English words are spelled in complicated, counterintuitive ways. Raj Haldar and Chris Carpenter wrote a children's book called "P is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever" to explore some ...