The word is a popular thing. Charismatic, even. Of all the parts of our language, it sticks out grandly. As such, it’s the easiest to tell stories about: The provenance of the word “entrepreneur” is ...

Words help us communicate, but they can also bore us to tears. People are gullible at work, they have a fear of failure. Blah, blah, blah. The following words add some spice to conversations, emails, ...

The great writer Samuel Beckett once said that “words are all we have.” Each day—which includes going to work each morning for many of us—we speak an average of 16,000 words. In fact, during one study ...