One Word Substitution is the use of a single word in place of a lengthy phrase to make sentences crisp and clear. This article provides 100+ categorized one-word substitutions that are frequently ...

Many of Sandy Piermarini’s first- and second-graders catch on to “R” words quickly. “Rabbit, rock, rat,” the kids yell out. But for a few of the dozen immigrant children in an English immersion course ...

Not long ago, a cellphone was a cell phone. A teenager was a teen-ager. Goodbye was good-bye. A website was a Web site. Legroom was leg room. Words and compounds evolve all the time. But in this ...

Health care, healthcare or health-care? Make up, makeup or make-up? Water ski, water-ski or waterski? Cell phone, cellphone or cell-phone? A lot of questions posed in this column elicit the answer: ...