In English, for example, studies have shown that swear words contain ... wind up in curses—which ones soften the sound of a word so that it can’t pack the angry, cathartic power that common ...

Learn some overused words that make you sound boring (and some ... ambivalent means that you don’t care about something. In ...

Oh by the way, have you ever heard of a pangram ... And that’s just one of the reasons why using big words doesn’t make you sound smart. Do you pepper your sentences with the word “literally”?

He noticed that swear words in English contain “a preponderance of plosive” sounds – p, t and k – in ... an expert in “sound symbolism,” in which words have sounds that suit their ...

They also tend to include the sounds P, T or K, “without giving ... with noses often include the nasal N sound, and words related to smallness often have an “ee” sound (as in “mini ...

You might think that using big, fancy words will make you sound smart, but it can actually have the complete opposite ... or like someone who isn’t intelligent enough to understand their audience.

A new study shows that swear words across languages may have more in common than previously ... and it seems that there were common sound properties. KELLY: McKay had a hunch that swear words ...

There are lots of words people get wrong. With homophones — words that have the same pronunciation ... or not. There aren’t degrees of uniqueness. People also throw around the word ...