There’s got to be something in the air. In recent weeks, I’ve gotten not one but two e-mails from readers about the word “got” and its cousin “gotten.” “I will never forget several teachers telling me ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. As we have entered the post-Trump era, marked by the forty-fifth president’s absence from the White House, from Twitter, and ...

Sacha Jenkins’ Word Is Bond celebrates the art of lyricism in hip-hop at a time when the genre’s mainstream is mostly focused elsewhere: on bunker-busting beats, on beguiling melodies, on Spotify ...

Researchers have found that piano lessons have a specific effect on kindergartners' ability to distinguish different pitches, which translates into an improvement in discriminating between words. Many ...

Many of us would agree the n-word is one of the most offensive terms around. A case could be made that the racial epithet is the “the filthiest, dirtiest, nastiest word in the English language,” as ...