As a longtime copy editor and certified word nerd, nothing drives me crazier than seeing words misused. Whether it’s people ...

Acronyms did not become a common method of word formation in English until World War II. Loran, a word loosely based on “long-range navigation” dates from 1940, for instance. The word acronym itself ...

Enterprise users have it made when searching for acronyms and their definitions because Microsoft Word’s newish Editor has that functionality built in. The rest of us have to work a bit harder to find ...