This is one of 10 essays I offer as we close 2021 that I hope will help broadcast journalists tell stronger stories in the year ahead. Mark Twain offered some writing advice about adjectives: ...

A ramble through the different aspects of adjectives – words which add spice to text. Lowdown? Okay, I know! I have used an unbecoming word to encompass a class of words that are by no means sinister ...

In honor of Mark Twain's birthday, here's a piece of writing advice from a letter he wrote to a student named D.W. Bowser: "I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief ...

In eighth grade when I read that Julius Caesar had an aquiline nose, I mistakenly thought it had something to do with water. But aquiline is from Latin aquila, meaning eagle, not aqua, water. He had a ...

Pope gives views on language in speech to Vatican communications team Pope Francis has taken aim at adjectives while giving his views on language to the Vatican communications team, saying: “I am ...

Consider one of William Strunk’s better pieces of advice in “The Elements of Style”: “Omit needless words.” Now consider this rejoinder from University of Edinburgh Linguistics professor Geoffrey ...