Another example of how words can affect survey results: A new Quinnipiac University poll finds that people are more likely to support the ability of public employee unions to negotiate wages and ...

About five years ago, I published a book called Magic Words. "A whole book?" some wondered. "Why can't you just give me a list?" Because the words aren't where the real magic lies. And yet, the media ...

What’s happening in business contracts today? Much depends on who’s doing the paper work. If it’s the two owners, be careful about the accidental ambiguity. If it’s the two lawyers, be careful of the ...

Throughout history, spoken Japanese has evolved in hundreds of different ways, creating dialects in each region. The two most spoken were the Edo and the Kinai dialect. Once Meiji was restored to the ...

Dan in Burbank recently came across an article in which a speaker was quoted as saying that a mother is of “the opposite sex than” her son. The speaker gets an A in anatomy, but Dan wouldn’t grade the ...