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'Yule' Love These New Books About Words

Stuff your stockings this holiday season with these lively new books about language. Jess Zafarris reveals the delightful backstories of hundreds of words in "Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins ...
Dr. Tonia Phanor sharing her message of empowerment and faith through her book Win with Words.” Join Dr. Tonia Phanor at The Pink Lion Jazz Club for the launch of her new book, Win with Words—a guide ...
We take words for granted. They’re the most basic building blocks of stories, the names we call each other, the way we explain our love to one another. These four thoughtful picture books make words ...
For Martha Barnette, griping about grammatical pet peeves is one of the least interesting ways to talk about language. Instead, the co-host of the radio show “A Way with Words” says she’d rather think ...
Writing this sentence was hard. There were so many other things I could have gone with. That set of words seemed right at the time, roughly 90 seconds ago. Now I’m not so sure. Joan Didion once said ...