Word of the Day: Paradox

Enhance your vocabulary with our Word of the Day series. In this series, we introduce a new word every day and explore its ...
American Songwriter

Country Music’s Smartest Wordplay: The Best Double Meanings Ever Written

Wordplay is a skill country music returns to again and again. Below are three country songs with incredible double meanings.
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The limits of meaning: Why some definitions only cloud understanding

Oftentimes definitions can limit you, imposing unnecessary constraints, enclosing things within the four corners of a narrow, ...
Idaho State Journal

The drifting definition of the word 'healthy'

Does the word healthy mean anything to you anymore? I think the meaning has been contorted, almost in the sense of a semantic change. A semantic change is also called semantic shift, semantic ...
Investopedia

Direct Tax: Definition, History, and Examples

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...
Investopedia

Discount Yield Formula, Meaning and Examples

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician ...
Mental Floss

10 Old English Words You Need to Be Using

If you learn just 10 Old English words today, let them be these from Mark Forsyth's The Horologicon: A Day’s Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language. “There is a single Old English word ...